10/07/2026
๐๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ ๐พ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐๐ ?
We benchmarked ๐๐น๐ฎ๐บ๐ฎ ๐ฏ.๐ญ ๐ด๐ ๐๐ป๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐ across FP16, FP8, FP4, and NVFP4 using vLLM and llm-compressor, evaluating performance on MMLU-Pro and MATH-500.
Our findings show that quantization is not a one-size-fits-all trade-off. ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐น๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฑ-๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ถ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐น๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ณ๐น๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐.
Read the full analysis to see what the results mean for production LLM deployment.
๐ Read the blog: https://www.fissionlabs.com/blog-posts/llm-quantization-accuracy
Large language models are expensive to run. An 8 billion parameter model, in case of Llama 3.1 8B Instruct needs around 16 GB of memory just to hold its weights in BF16, before you even account for activations, KV cache, and batching overhead. Scale that to multiple GPUs serving thousands of request...