diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fattn-tile.cuh b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fattn-tile.cuh
index b6db582281..f3fa80ab23 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fattn-tile.cuh
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fattn-tile.cuh
@@ -1186,8 +1186,10 @@ static void launch_fattn_tile_switch_ncols2(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, ggm
     GGML_ASSERT(Q->ne[2] % K->ne[2] == 0);
     const int gqa_ratio = Q->ne[2] / K->ne[2];
 
+    // On NVIDIA (Pascal and older) the GQA optimizations seem to be detrimental in some cases.
+    // However, for DKQ == 576, DV == 512 only the kernel variant with GQA optimizations is implemented.
     const bool nvidia = GGML_CUDA_CC_IS_NVIDIA(ggml_cuda_info().devices[ggml_cuda_get_device()].cc);
-    const int gqa_limit = nvidia && gqa_ratio <= 4 ? 16 : INT_MAX;
+    const int gqa_limit = nvidia && gqa_ratio <= 4 && DV <= 256 ? 16 : INT_MAX;
     const bool use_gqa_opt = mask && max_bias == 0.0f && Q->ne[1] <= gqa_limit && K->ne[1] % FATTN_KQ_STRIDE == 0;
 
     if constexpr (DV == 512) {