diff --git a/tinygrad/dtype.py b/tinygrad/dtype.py
index 60ca8f8981..09d00bab0c 100644
--- a/tinygrad/dtype.py
+++ b/tinygrad/dtype.py
@@ -221,9 +221,9 @@ def can_safe_cast(dt0:DType, dt1:DType) -> bool:
   if dt0 == dt1 or dt0 == dtypes.bool: return True
   match dt1:
     case dtypes.index: return dt0 in dtypes.ints
-    case dtypes.double: return dt0 in (dtypes.float, dtypes.half, dtypes.bfloat16,
+    case dtypes.double: return dt0 in (dtypes.float, dtypes.half, dtypes.bfloat16, *dtypes.fp8s,
       dtypes.uint32, dtypes.uint16, dtypes.uint8, dtypes.int32, dtypes.int16, dtypes.int8)
-    case dtypes.float: return dt0 in (dtypes.half, dtypes.bfloat16, dtypes.uint16, dtypes.uint8, dtypes.int16, dtypes.int8)
+    case dtypes.float: return dt0 in (dtypes.half, dtypes.bfloat16, *dtypes.fp8s, dtypes.uint16, dtypes.uint8, dtypes.int16, dtypes.int8)
     case dtypes.uint64: return dt0 in (dtypes.uint32, dtypes.uint16, dtypes.uint8)
     case dtypes.uint32: return dt0 in (dtypes.uint16, dtypes.uint8)
     case dtypes.int64: return dt0 in (dtypes.uint32, dtypes.uint16, dtypes.uint8, dtypes.int32, dtypes.int16, dtypes.int8)