# TurboQuant: 6x Memory, 8x Speed, Zero Accuracy Loss - Google Redefined KV Cache Compression

> Google Research's TurboQuant compresses the KV cache of large language models to 3-bit precision with no training and no accuracy loss. Three coordinated algorithms deliver 6x memory reduction and 8x attention speedup on H100 GPUs - changing the economics of long-context inference.

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Edition: Article 07 · April 2026
Tags: Quantization, Efficiency, LLMs
Reading time: 8 min read

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