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Can the AMD Instinct MI325X run Qwen3.8 Flash Next (125B-A6B)?

96Excellent quality (A+) · 96 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 98/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q8_0 it needs about 204 GB of 256 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 177 tok/s.

Best quant
Q8_0
Generation speed
177 tok/s
Prompt processing
16,885 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
256K

Best app to run it on the AMD Instinct MI325X

On Linux

vLLM

Inference server · runs on vLLM

  • The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
  • Lemonade AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

On Windows

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

  • AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.
lemonade pull unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF:Q8_0
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

Want an agent? Qwen3.8 Flash Next (125B-A6B) supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Qwen3.8 Flash Next (125B-A6B)

Recommended for the AMD Instinct MI325X: Q8_0. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q8_0 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF:Q8_0

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Alibaba, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Alibaba. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.8 (opens in a new tab)

Qwen’s current repo: Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.6 redirect here.

git clone https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.8

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 96Excellent quality (A+) · 96 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 98/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q8_0, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great
How well it runs on the AMD Instinct MI325X: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.43.4 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.15.0 / 15
Match score98.4 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the AMD Instinct MI325X

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 85.6 GB 256 GB 270 tok/s Runs great 67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q2_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 102 GB 256 GB 252 tok/s Runs great 81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q3_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 123 GB 256 GB 232 tok/s Runs great 91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 141 GB 256 GB 215 tok/s Runs great 93Excellent quality (A+) · 93 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 94/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q5_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 161 GB 256 GB 201 tok/s Runs great 95Excellent quality (A+) · 95 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 97/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (UD-Q6_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 204 GB 256 GB 177 tok/s Runs great 96Excellent quality (A+) · 96 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 98/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 374 GB 256 GB — Won't run 96Excellent quality (A+) · 96 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 13/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does Qwen3.8 Flash Next (125B-A6B) need on the AMD Instinct MI325X 256GB?

At Q8_0 it needs about 204 GB. The AMD Instinct MI325X 256GB has 256 GB usable.

How fast is Qwen3.8 Flash Next (125B-A6B) on the AMD Instinct MI325X 256GB?

About 177 tok/s at Q8_0, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Qwen3.8 Flash Next (125B-A6B) should I use on the AMD Instinct MI325X 256GB?

Q8_0. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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