Running Qwen3.8 Flash Next 176B on a 16GB RTX 3080 Laptop + 32GB RAM + SSD
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Published by r/LocalLLaMA (T2 source). The original is at https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wwwmy1/running_qwen38_flash_next_176b_on_a_16gb_rtx_3080/.
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SummaryA Reddit user reports running the Qwen3.8 Flash Next 176B parameter language model on a 16GB RTX 3080 laptop GPU paired with 32GB system RAM and SSD storage, presumably using aggressive quantization and CPU/disk offloading.
Why it mattersFirsthand account of squeezing a 176B model onto a 16GB laptop GPU; a concrete data point for anyone running large local models on limited hardware.
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