Zyphra ZYFA: FP8 FlashAttention for AMD MI355X, Up to 1.76x Faster
Zyphra released ZYFA, open-source FP8 and BF16 prefill attention kernels for AMD Instinct MI355X. On real model activations, its FP8 kernels run 1.16-1.76x faster than AMD’s AITER, with 62-78% lower error at head dimension 128.
In brief
- What: Zyphra ZYFA: FP8 FlashAttention for AMD MI355X, Up to 1.76x Faster
- When: November 6, 2026 at 20:28
- Source: MarkTechPost (media)
- Topic: Models
Prepared by Ilya Tarasov’s Tarasov Code newsroom based on a report by MarkTechPost.
