Data Type Flexibility in DeepSeek-V3.1-Base
DeepSeek-V3.1-Base provides diverse data type support to meet the needs of various computing environments:
- BF16 Format: Optimal Balance of Performance and Accuracy on Mainstream GPUs
- F8_E4M3 format: optimized for specific hardware to improve energy efficiency ratio
- F32 format: provides the highest computational accuracy for demanding reasoning tasks
Data type selection considerations include:
- Hardware gas pedal types and compute unit characteristics
- Task requirements for numerical accuracy
- System memory and video memory capacity limitations
In practice, the BF16 format is the default recommendation due to its good versatility, while F8_E4M3 provides better throughput for scenarios that require maximized hardware utilization.F32 is suitable for debugging phases or accuracy-sensitive tasks.
This answer comes from the articleDeepSeek-V3.1-Base: a large-scale language model for efficiently processing complex tasksThe
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