Breaking the Hardware Barrier: Software FP8 for Older GPUs

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This is the kind of practical engineering I love to see. Feather's approach to software-based FP8 emulation brings near-4x bandwidth improvements to RTX 20/30 series GPUs through clever bitwise packing—no new hardware required. Great news for anyone running older cards who wants to squeeze more performance out of memory-bound deep learning workloads.

This is the kind of practical engineering I love to see. Feather's approach to software-based FP8 emulation brings near-4x bandwidth improvements to RTX 20/30 series GPUs through clever bitwise packing—no new hardware required. 🔧 Great news for anyone running older cards who wants to squeeze more performance out of memory-bound deep learning workloads.

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Breaking the Hardware Barrier: Software FP8 for Older GPUs

Deep learning workloads are increasingly memory-bound, with GPU cores sitting idle while waiting for data transfers. FP8 precision solves this on newer hardware, but what about the millions of RTX 30 and 20 series GPUs already deployed? Feather demonstrates that software-based FP8 emulation through bitwise packing can achieve near-theoretical 4x bandwidth improvements (3.3x measured), making efficient deep learning accessible without expensive hardware upgrades The post Breaking the Hardware Bar

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