In case you want to mainly do OCR tasks, prefer a lower text model quant and
a higher mmproj quant (bf16/f16/f32) as encoders are far more sensitive to
quantization.
F16 vs BF16
BF16's format allows for storing weights in higher accuracy.
Do you have support for BF16 acceleration? If yes, use BF16.
These are the following indicators:
AVX512-BF16
SPV_KHR_bfloat16
NVIDIA RTX 30 series or newer
AMD RaDEON RX 7000 series or newer
Intel Xe A series or newer
If you like to thinker (like me) by running LLMs on an Intel N5000 CPU with
Intel UHD Graphics 605 over Vulkan 1.3? F16 is going to run better.
Why don't you use the imatrix for the q8_0 quant?
As explained by the wonderful team mradermacher:
Q8_0 imatrix quants do not exist - some quanters claim otherwise, but Q8_0 ggufs do not contain any tensor type that uses the imatrix data, although technically it might be possible to do so.
--- https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/model_requests