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Can I run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 125B-A6B (MoE) locally?

Alibaba · 125B parameters (6B active) · chat, reasoning, coding, vision.

Ollama weight files: Q4_K_M 120 GB (qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q4_K_M); Q8_0 189 GB (qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q8_0).

Yes on 15 machines in this list. The smallest is M3 Max 128GB: Q4_K_M, about 113.9 GB, roughly 30 tokens per second, via LM Studio. lms get mlx-community/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-4bit

Setup on Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GB

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Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
M3 Max 128GBLM StudioMLX 4bit113.9 GBfits if the Mac GPU limit is raised~30 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-4bit
M4 Max 128GBLM StudioMLX 4bit113.9 GBfits if the Mac GPU limit is raised~41 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-4bit
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBLM StudioMLX 4bit113.9 GBfits if the Mac GPU limit is raised~41 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-4bit
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBLM StudioMLX 4bit113.9 GBfits if the Mac GPU limit is raised~46 tok/slms get mlx-community/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-4bit
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ4_K_M122.3 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q4_K_M
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBMLXMLX 4bit113.9 GBfits in fast memory~64 tok/sexo # on every Mac (brew install --cask exo); load mlx-community/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-4bit with Tensor sharding + RDMA
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaQ8_0191.3 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_0191.3 GBfits in fast memory~53 tok/sollama run qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q8_0
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ8_0191.3 GBfits in fast memory~53 tok/sollama run qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q8_0
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF201.6 GBfits in fast memory~14 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF201.6 GBfits in fast memory~19 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF201.6 GBfits in fast memory~43 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaQ8_0191.3 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q8_0
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF201.6 GBfits in fast memory~12 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF201.6 GBfits in fast memory~38 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-16.

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