FP8 nearly triples Llama 3 70B throughput on two H100s, guide says
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-04
- The post highlights a practical quantization result on Llama 3 70B running on just two H100s.
- Switching from FP16 to FP8 reportedly increases throughput from 158 tokens/sec to 474 tokens/sec and cuts time-to-first-token under load from about 30 seconds to under 5 seconds.
- It points readers to a guide explaining how quantization works and which model format to download in production.
- The main takeaway is that precision choices alone can make a huge difference in deployment performance and latency.
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