ThunderKittens Runs on NVIDIA Vera Rubin: NVFP4 GEMM Hits 22 PFLOPS
NVIDIAAI · x · 2026-09-15
Together Compute announced ThunderKittens is now running on NVIDIA Vera Rubin. Their kernel team got early access to NVL72, dug through the new ISA, and after reworking kernels for Rubin pushed NVFP4 and FP8 GEMMs to 22 and 12 PFLOPS respectively—competitive with cuBLAS + CUTLASS DSL. NVIDIA AI's official account replied with approval.
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