Breaking the Hardware Barrier: Software FP8 for Older GPUs

Source: Towards Data Science

Introduction

Deep learning workloads are increasingly memory‑bound, with GPU cores sitting idle while waiting for data transfers. FP8 precision solves this on newer hardware, but what about the millions of RTX 30 and 20 series GPUs already deployed? Feather demonstrates that software‑based FP8 emulation through …