Yes — with 102.8 GB to spare

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 180B-A6B at Q4_K_M fits your CPU only · DDR5 8-channel server entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 17 tokens per second. There is room for its full 256K window.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 101.2 GB Qwen Community 1.0 Released 24 Aug 2026 New this week Vision

The open preview of the Qwen4 architecture: a 125B-A6B hybrid (Gated DeltaNet + sparse attention, KV cache on 12 of 48 blocks) plus a 51B n-gram embedding and a 4B draft head — 180B on disk, 6B active. The hosted "Qwen3.8-Flash" is this model with a 1M window.

What hardware do I need for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 180B-A6B? →

The VRAM budget

weights 101.2 GB
Weights 101.2 GB KV cache @ 8K 0.19 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 102.8 GB of 204.8 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 178.1 GB 178.9 GB 256K 9.6 −0.1% ppl Long context
Q6_K 137.5 GB 138.3 GB 256K 12 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 118.8 GB 119.6 GB 256K 14 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 101.2 GB 102.0 GB 256K 17 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 81.9 GB 82.7 GB 256K 21 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 70.2 GB 71.0 GB 256K 24 −15% ppl Long context

Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. Only 12 of its 48 blocks keep a per-token KV cache; the rest are linear-attention, Mamba or convolution blocks with a fixed-size state.

How to run it

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 99

The engine underneath most of the others. Every knob is exposed. More on llama.cpp.

01Download is 101.2 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02With no GPU, thread count matters more than clock. Start at one thread per physical core.
03There is room to go to the model's full 256K context on this card.
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