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FP8 inference

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FP8 vs NVFP4 vs INT4-AWQ: AWQ Outran NVFP4 on 3 of 4 Models

Run FP8 by default. For 4-bit, INT4-AWQ beat NVFP4 on speed on three of four models in an independent Blackwell benchmark, and NVIDIA's own NVFP4 Gemma file was nearly the size of FP8.

October 9, 2026 · 12 min read