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. (love this guys work) The V100s ran Qwen3.8's published mixed FP4/FP8 weights unchanged. This should be impossible . NVFP4 was built for Blackwell. The RTX 5090 has native silicon for FP4 and FP8; V100 h