Aug 28, 2026
Summary
User reports an unlocked CMP 170HX, A100 silicon with a firmware unlock, reaching 193 TFLOPS tensor throughput, up from 6.3 TFLOPS.
In llama.cpp, pp512 rises from 599.6 to 3468 tok/s.
Serving Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 under vLLM, one 170HX beats a 2x3090 tensor-parallel pair on prefill at 197W versus 454W.