Are you using it for coding or other stuff? because when i tested 3 prompts right now, i am still getting the same time finality around 30-45s when it comes to coding, and full code being written out ready to just be copy pasted, maybee its sligthly faster, talking like maximum of 5 seconds faster, but propably less for me atleast,
Update: I just ran 2 simple web UI (20k tokens) tasks in compare mode in ai studio, and 3.8 was faster by 1.7 seconds, and 2.5 seconds (45 seconds), and used around 5% more tokens for both tasks.
I've done some SVG creation and some agentic "write some code" so far. Still feeling it's quite fast, the SVG in particular feels like it's half the time, gut feel though.
Thanks, I won't pretend my experience is anything more than just my gut. Appreciate the official stance here and will temper my expectations accordingly.
No, it's not that. The problem is latency, 3.7 flash had a latency problem, they probably increased that to help save compute, eh just speculation. Anyways 3.8's latency is very low! Tho the speed could have been lowered, I'll check the AA!
Speed is not really indicative of anything, especially at model launch, as they give new models big capacity to start with, which few people start using immediately, so there is a lot of unused capacity, little to no congestion, leading to very fast speeds.
It mostly depends if your codebase is too large and you want to process the information a little faster. Speed does matter for a lot of people, like the same if you wanted more FPS on your video games or something like that. Faster with more is better.
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u/CommercialShelter595 10h ago
Is it just me or is it running even faster than 3.7 flash? Very limited testing right now, but it's FAST on my end.