NVFP4 vs FP8: What Blackwell’s 4-Bit Format Changes
NVFP4 vs FP8 on Blackwell, fact-checked: block-16 scaling, measured speedups, quality limits, mixed-precision recipes and a reproducible acceptance test.
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Becker
Senior Compiler & Quantization Engineer at Eyestech. Munich-based systems researcher (ex-Fraunhofer). Specializing in low-bit quantization kernels (FP4, AWQ, EXL2), Triton optimization, and hardware-aware LLM execution.