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Did anyone do a full bench of e.g. Qwen Flash Next IQ4 and Qwen 27b FP8? Here are some

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I let Codex do some eval on Qwen 3.8 Flash Next IQ4_XS (served via vllm and r9v) and Qwen 3.8 FP8 (served via vllm and radiance). Here are the results:

Benchmark Flash-Next IQ4_XS Qwen3.8 27B FP8 Result
MMLU-Pro 83.8% 75.0% Flash-Next
GPQA Diamond 42.5% 27.5% Flash-Next
GSM8K 97.5% 90.0% Flash-Next
German MGSM 92.5% 90.0% Flash-Next
IFEval 89.6% 89.6% Tie

It took 2 h, next iteration would be >8 hours, sadly no time for that yet. FP8 27B completed the 250-case "fast" trial in 36m 27s, versus 2h 05m 47s for Flash-Next IQ4_XS.

I am running 64 GB DDR5 and 2x R9700 for reference. Recent updates in R9V were not implemented here. With 128 GB DDR5, you could use the mxfp4 quant of flash next from tcclaviger which would accelerate the test by approx 2x for QFN.

Any suggestions for more indicative benchmarks? Anyone did more? There are so many comments every week saying FP8 27b is better than low quants of QFN, but I would consider IQ4_XS already "low", however, in my daily work and this eval, there is no indication of those "comments". For single user, I would prefer even the low quant, but concurrency of FP8 27b on my system is like 4x as fast as QFN.

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