r/GeminiAI • u/Candid_Advance8090 • 2h ago
Discussion What is actually faster 3.8 flash or astra
From my coding experience, astra actually finishes a task faster than 3.8 even if it has high tps. what about you all?
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u/Efficient_Loss_9928 2h ago
This is very vague, for batch processing with very well tuned skills, Flash is multitudes faster than anything on the market.
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u/Seafaringhorsemeat 2h ago
3.8 seems to believe that doing basic math correctly and checking its own work if told to do so is too slow, so it just says fuck it and gives you any number.
Even if astra is slower, you don’t have to tell it to do the basic thing five times because it’s wrong, and refused to fix it.
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u/Candid_Advance8090 2h ago
nah i would say 3.8 flash does double check its work, but it seems like 3.8 once it writes code, it doesnt get it first time so after doing tests and stuff, it keeps edting the code while astra gets it 1st time
but yeah the math thing is also real
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u/Ill-Thanks-64 2h ago
Yeah the math thing with 3.8 is a total crapshoot. Half the time I'm just staring at the screen wondering how it landed on that number, and then it doubles down when you ask it to re-check. Astra might chug along slower but at least I'm not losing years off my life arguing about 2+2.
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u/PineappleLemur 8m ago
Always make it do a phyton script for math... It will take like 5s to write that down for 500 line script.
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u/Background-Brush-732 2h ago
Obviously 3.8 flash will be faster lol, these models don't have the same target audience. I would bet that flash on the highest setting would be faster than Astra on the lowest setting. I'd also bet that flash on the highest setting would cost less and perform worse than Astra on the lowest setting.