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NVFP4

NVIDIA's 4-bit microscaling format, using small value blocks with a floating-point scale; the choice between it and MXFP4 is baked into silicon and into checkpoint portability.

Current numbers

1st rack validated 2026-06-01CoreWeave-reported industry-first Vera Rubin NVL72 rack, validated 1 June 2026: ~3.6 EFLOPS sparse NVFP4, 216 TB/s NVLink 6as of 2026-10 · register ↗
25T tokenslongest documented 4-bit pre-training run by tokens (Nemotron 3 Super, 120B total, ~12B active MoE, NVFP4, 25T total seen tokens)as of 2026-10 · register ↗
~50 PFLOPS sparse (35 dense)Vera Rubin per-GPU NVFP4: 50 PFLOPS sparse (inference), 35 PFLOPS dense (training)as of 2026-10 · register ↗

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