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FP8

An 8-bit floating-point format that roughly doubles throughput and halves memory versus 16-bit for AI workloads.

Current numbers

216 GBHBM3E per Microsoft Maia 200 @ 7 TB/s; >10 PFLOPS FP4 / 5 PFLOPS FP8, 750W, +30% perf/$as of early 2026 · register ↗
2.52 PFLOPSFP8 per Trainium3 chip; 144 GB HBM3E @ 4.9 TB/s; first 3nm AWS acceleratoras of Dec 2025 · register ↗
144 chipsper Trn3 UltraServer = 362 FP8 PFLOPS, 20.7 TB HBM, 4x perf/watt vs Trn2as of Dec 2025 · register ↗

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