Does FP8 KV Cache degrade Qwen3.8-27B quality in long contexts?
Valuable-Run2129 · reddit · 2026-08-20
The author discusses the trade-off of using FP8 KV Cache on Qwen3.8-27B to enable MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) capabilities in long-context scenarios.
Core Dilemma:
- Common advice is to avoid quantizing the cache, but with 260k context lengths, FP8 is necessary to fit MTP.
- The author seeks verification on whether FP8 quality degradation is negligible compared to FP16, as AI suggests it might be.
Focus:
- Whether FP8 quantization causes noticeable capability degradation in extreme long-context generation.
- Finding the balance between inference speed (enabling MTP) and model quality.
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