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INT8 support
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Description
For nvidia gpus with 8.0 <= compute capability < 8.9 which don't have fp8 support, torch._int_mm can be used for torch.int8 matmul. from my own testing, this results in a ~30% performance increase over bf16/fp16 matmul when torch.compiled. this could be used with fp8 by dequantizing before re-quantizing to int8, or it could be used with int8 weights or bit-packed lower precision (u)int weights. in my own [extension](https://github.com/kanttouchthis/ComfyUI-SDNQ) i use this technique with svd for fast and reasonably accurate 4 bit quantization, but it would be great to see first party support. it should also be fairly easy to implement an int8 matmul kernel in cuda/triton for other gpus.
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