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Feature Request: support FP8 data type in llama.cpp #14020

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Feature Description

Currently, the FP8 data type is the default data type for models like DeepSeek, which is supposed to have better accuracy than INT8 while they have the same size. vLLM already supports fp8 data type.

File the issue for request the support of fp8 in llama.cpp.

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with same level model size, FP8 is supposed to have better accuracy than int8.

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