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NVFP4 on VOLTA! Despite being built for Blackwell, I made four 2017 V100s run Qwen 3.8 NVFP4 natively and match my $6000 RTX 5090.

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Four Tesla V100s from 2017 matched my RTX 5090 on single-request Qwen 3.8 decode. Repo: https://github.com/dnv2003/v100-skinny https://i.redd.it/5ws2ak3uqckh1.gif The 5090 was not being held back. It ran NInfer , a specialist engine built to make this exact model as fast as possible on that GPU. (l…

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  1. 2026-08-19 15:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    NVFP4 on VOLTA! Despite being built for Blackwell, I made four 2017 V100s run Qwen 3.8 NVFP4 natively and match my $6000 RTX 5090.

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