KernelBench hard · RTX PRO 6000
FP8 GEMM Grok 4.6
37.5%geomean peak fraction across shapes
manually audited: clean
Triton fp8 e4m3 x e4m3 tensor-core GEMM (tl.dot, fp32 accumulate, per-channel scale, bf16 epilogue). CUDA-graph replay is keyed on operand data_ptr and recaptures on a new pointer, same class as published gpt-5.5 KDA. template_mutated=false.
harnessgrokagent session45mtotal wall49mcheck7sbenchmark5soutput tokens—regimecompute
Per-shape vs governing ceilingeach shape graded against whichever binds — fp8 compute or HBM bandwidth
4096×4096×40960.208 ms66.1%661 TFLOPS · 66% of 1,000 TF fp8 peak · also 0.32 TB/s (18% of HBM)
4096×4096×41270.267 ms51.8%518 TFLOPS · 52% of 1,000 TF fp8 peak · also 0.25 TB/s (14% of HBM)
32×8192×81920.052 ms8.2%1.30 TB/s · 72% of 1.8 TB/s HBM · also 82 TFLOPS (8% of compute)
4096×14336×40960.687 ms70.0%700 TFLOPS · 70% of 1,000 TF fp8 peak · also 0.28 TB/s (16% of HBM)
compute-bound memory-bound · bar + right column = official fraction of the ceiling (the geomean input)
geomean(66.1% · 51.8% · 8.2% · 70.0%) = 37.5%
Kernel source (redacted)
"""FP8 e4m3 x e4m3 GEMM with per-output-channel dequant scale.
y = ((x @ weight.T) * weight_scale).to(bf16)
Real fp8 tensor-core MMA via Triton tl.dot on fp8 operands (lowers to
mma.sync.aligned.m16n8k32.row.col.f32.e4m3.e4m3.f32 on SM120).
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import triton
import triton.language as tl
E4M3_MAX = 448.0
@triton.jit
def _fp8_gemm_kernel(
a_ptr,
b_ptr,
scale_ptr,
c_ptr,
M,
N,
K,
stride_am,
stride_ak,
stride_bn,
stride_bk,
stride_cm,
stride_cn,
BLOCK_M: tl.constexpr,
BLOCK_N: tl.constexpr,
BLOCK_K: tl.constexpr,
GROUP_M: tl.constexpr,
):
pid = tl.program_id(0)
num_pid_m = tl.cdiv(M, BLOCK_M)
num_pid_n = tl.cdiv(N, BLOCK_N)
num_pid_in_group = GROUP_M * num_pid_n
group_id = pid // num_pid_in_group
first_pid_m = group_id * GROUP_M
group_size_m = min(num_pid_m - first_pid_m, GROUP_M)
pid_m = first_pid_m + (pid % group_size_m)
pid_n = (pid % num_pid_in_group) // group_size_m
offs_m = pid_m * BLOCK_M + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_M)
offs_n = pid_n * BLOCK_N + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_N)
offs_k = tl.arange(0, BLOCK_K)
offs_m = tl.max_contiguous(tl.multiple_of(tl.where(offs_m < M, offs_m, 0), BLOCK_M), BLOCK_M)
offs_n = tl.max_contiguous(tl.multiple_of(tl.where(offs_n < N, offs_n, 0), BLOCK_N), BLOCK_N)
a_ptrs = a_ptr + offs_m[:, None] * stride_am + offs_k[None, :] * stride_ak
b_ptrs = b_ptr + offs_n[None, :] * stride_bn + offs_k[:, None] * stride_bk
acc = tl.zeros((BLOCK_M, BLOCK_N), dtype=tl.float32)
for _k in range(0, K, BLOCK_K):
a = tl.load(a_ptrs)
b = tl.load(b_ptrs)
acc = tl.dot(a, b, acc)
a_ptrs += BLOCK_K * stride_ak
b_ptrs += BLOCK_K * stride_bk
scale = tl.load(scale_ptr + offs_n, mask=offs_n < N, other=0.0)
acc = acc * scale[None, :]
mask = (offs_m[:, None] < M) & (offs_n[None, :] < N)
tl.store(
c_ptr + offs_m[:, None] * stride_cm + offs_n[None, :] * stride_cn,
acc.to(tl.bfloat16),
mask=mask,
)
def _pick(m: int, n: int, k: int) -> tuple[int, int, int, int, int, int]:
if m <= 32:
return 32, 64, 128, 8, 4, 4
if m <= 64:
return 64, 128, 64, 8, 4, 4
return 128, 256, 64, 8, 8, 3
class Model(nn.Module):
"""y = ((x @ w.T) * weight_scale).to(bf16).
x: fp8_e4m3 (M, K). w: fp8_e4m3 (N, K) normalized to the e4m3 range.
weight_scale: (N,) per-output-channel dequant scale.
"""
def __init__(self, M: int, N: int, K: int):
super().__init__()
self.M, self.N, self.K = M, N, K
w = torch.empty(N, K, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
nn.init.normal_(w, std=0.02)
s = (w.float().abs().amax(dim=1, keepdim=True) / E4M3_MAX).clamp(min=1e-12)
w_fp8 = (w.float() / s).to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
self.register_buffer("weight", w_fp8)
self.register_buffer("weight_scale", s.squeeze(1).to(torch.float32))
self._bm, self._bn, self._bk, self._group, self._warps, self._stages = _pick(M, N, K)
self._grid = (triton.cdiv(M, self._bm) * triton.cdiv(N, self._bn),)
self._need_pad = (K % self._bk) != 0
self._k_pad = (K + self._bk - 1) // self._bk * self._bk if self._need_pad else K
self._out: torch.Tensor | None = None
self._a_pad: torch.Tensor | None = None
self._b_pad: torch.Tensor | None = None
self._graph: torch.cuda.CUDAGraph | None = None
self._cap_a_ptr: int = 0
self._cap_b_ptr: int = 0
def _ensure_bufs(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> None:
device = x.device
if self._out is None or self._out.device != device:
self._out = torch.empty((self.M, self.N), device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
self._graph = None
self._cap_a_ptr = 0
self._cap_b_ptr = 0
if self._need_pad:
self._a_pad = torch.zeros((self.M, self._k_pad), device=device, dtype=x.dtype)
self._b_pad = torch.zeros((self.N, self._k_pad), device=device, dtype=self.weight.dtype)
def _launch(self, a: torch.Tensor, b: torch.Tensor, k: int) -> None:
_fp8_gemm_kernel[self._grid](
a,
b,
self.weight_scale,
self._out,
self.M,
self.N,
k,
a.stride(0),
a.stride(1),
b.stride(0),
b.stride(1),
self._out.stride(0),
self._out.stride(1),
BLOCK_M=self._bm,
BLOCK_N=self._bn,
BLOCK_K=self._bk,
GROUP_M=self._group,
num_warps=self._warps,
num_stages=self._stages,
)
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
if not x.is_contiguous():
x = x.contiguous()
self._ensure_bufs(x)
if self._need_pad:
a, b, k = self._a_pad, self._b_pad, self._k_pad
a[:, : self.K].copy_(x)
b[:, : self.K].copy_(self.weight)
else:
a, b, k = x, self.weight, self.K
a_ptr = a.data_ptr()
b_ptr = b.data_ptr()
if self._graph is None or a_ptr != self._cap_a_ptr or b_ptr != self._cap_b_ptr:
self._launch(a, b, k)
torch.cuda.synchronize()
g = torch.cuda.CUDAGraph()
with torch.cuda.graph(g):
self._launch(a, b, k)
self._graph = g
self._cap_a_ptr = a_ptr
self._cap_b_ptr = b_ptr
self._graph.replay()
return self._out
M = 4096
N = 4096
K = 4096
def get_inputs():
x = (torch.rand(M, K) * 8 - 4).to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
return [x]
def get_init_inputs():
return [M, N, K]
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