How fast will Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next feel on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 96GB?

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 96GB

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next is a 180B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (6B active per token). At GSQ-RCO-IQ3_S it needs about 84.4 GB of memory. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 96GB has 89 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 280 tokens/sec (135–426), with the first token after 0.3 s for a short prompt. This estimate is interpolated from benchmarks of similar setups.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q2_K80.9 GBFits290 tok/s0.3 sDerived
GSQ-RCO-IQ3_S83.6 GBFits280 tok/s0.3 sDerived
Q3_K_M92.0 GBPartial offload164 tok/s1.2 sProjected
IQ4_XS97.7 GBPartial offload99 tok/s1.2 sProjected
UD-Q4_K_XL111.3 GBPartial offload51 tok/s1.2 sProjected
Q4_K_M119.6 GBPartial offload40 tok/s1.2 sProjected
Q8_0188.3 GBPartial offload14 tok/s1.2 sProjected
FP16354.0 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on other hardware

Other models on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 96GB

All models on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 96GB · Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on all hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.