Q4 flash next for £300/600 👀 - snapdragon mini PC results update - 315/43 Tok/s A3b, 46/20 Tok/s Flash Next (read/gen) 💥
I ported it to ARM and contributed the work back as PRs (NEON kernels, a Windows on ARM build, and a cache bug fix Maurizio has since shipped in his own release).
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Key points
- Quick recap of how I got here: I started on llama.cpp, then pretty quickly moved over to Janas (github.com/prabanta-dev/janas).
- It's not released, YET, but it's what I used to produce the numbers below.
- Lenovo IdeaCentre Mini: Snapdragon X X1-26-100 (8 Oryon cores, Hexagon NPU; the Adreno GPU isn't used), 32 GB LPDDR5, the stock 512 GB NVMe (the models stream from it), Windows 11.
- Qwen3.8 Flash Next UD-Q4KXL: unsloth Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-UD-Q4KXL (104 GB).
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- [1]Q4 flash next for £300/600 👀 - snapdragon mini PC results update - 315/43 Tok/s A3b, 46/20 Tok/s Flash Next (read/gen) 💥r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 22, 03:58 PM
I ported it to ARM and contributed the work back as PRs (NEON kernels, a Windows on ARM build, and a cache bug fix Maurizio has since shipped in his own release).
Quick recap of how I got here: I started on llama.cpp, then pretty quickly moved over to Janas (github.com/prabanta-dev/janas).
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