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Fastest NVFP4 quant of Qwen3.8 27B out there

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Here's a brand new Blackwell-native, prefill-optimized 4-bit quant that runs 50% faster on compatible hardware than a Q4 quant of the same memory footprint. And it runs 4-7% faster than other NVFP4 quants as benchmarked on RTX 5090 32GB. Quant Benchmark Speed NVFP4 pp2048 6250 t/s unsloth NVFP4 pp2…

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  1. 2026-08-21 09:19 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Fastest NVFP4 quant of Qwen3.8 27B out there

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