Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: 256k context, 16tok/s on DDR4 and a Tesla T4

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A developer successfully ran the Qwen 180B Mixture-of-Experts model at usable speeds on a $150 legacy Tesla T4 GPU and DDR4 RAM. By utilizing specific PRs for llama.cpp and aggressive quantization, they achieved a massive 256k context window on consumer-accessible server hardware. This proves that high-end frontier capabilities are increasingly decoupling from the latest H100 clusters.