# Basic MNIST Example with optional FP8 of TransformerEngine
[TransformerEngine](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TransformerEngine) is a library for accelerating Transformer models on NVIDIA GPUs, including using 8-bit floating point (FP8) precision on Hopper GPUs, to provide better performance with lower memory utilization in both training and inference.
Thanks for the contribution to this tutorial from NVIDIA.