In this guide, we cover exporting YOLOv8 models to the [OpenVINO](https://docs.openvino.ai/) format, which can provide up to 3x [CPU](https://docs.openvino.ai/nightly/openvino_docs_OV_UG_supported_plugins_CPU.html) speedup as well as accelerating on other Intel hardware ([iGPU](https://docs.openvino.ai/nightly/openvino_docs_OV_UG_supported_plugins_GPU.html), [dGPU](https://docs.openvino.ai/nightly/openvino_docs_OV_UG_supported_plugins_GPU.html), [VPU](https://docs.openvino.ai/2022.3/openvino_docs_OV_UG_supported_plugins_VPU.html), etc.).