NVFP4 on VOLTA matches RTX 5090 for Qwen 3.8 in FP4/FP8 on four 2017 Tesla V100s
Read the original at old.reddit.com→Four Tesla V100s from 2017 matched my RTX 5090 on single-request Qwen 3.8 decode. Repo: https://github.com/dnv2003/v100-skinny https://i.redd.it/5ws2ak3uqckh1.gif The 5090 was not being held back. It ran NInfer, a...
Original headline: "NVFP4 on VOLTA! Despite being built for Blackwell, I made four 2017 V100s run Qwen 3.8 NVFP4 natively and match my $6000 RTX 5090."
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- Aug 19, 15:44 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source NVFP4 on VOLTA! Despite being built for Blackwell, I made four 2017 V100s run Qwen 3.8 NVFP4 natively and match my $6000 RTX 5090.