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FP6 · 6-bit floating point

An intermediate precision rung between FP8 and FP4, offered by some accelerators as a way to gain throughput without accepting the full quality risk of 4-bit.

Current numbers

~20 PFLOPSAMD MI355X FP4 (sparse), CDNA4, with native FP6 supportas of 2025 · register ↗

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