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Qwen 3.8 Flash Next optimized for two CMP 170hx GPUs
"Extracting insane throughput from crypto-mining relics through sheer engineering spite."
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A developer successfully optimized Qwen 3.8 Flash on dual NVIDIA CMP 170HX mining cards, achieving over 800 tokens per second through aggressive pipeline parallelism and speculative decoding. By utilizing memory-mapped n-gram tables on NVMe, the setup bypasses PCIe bandwidth bottlenecks typical of older hardware. This demonstrates that highly efficient local inference is possible on non-standard, affordable enterprise hardware.
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