diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmq.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmq.cu
index 78d70cd7a..4935f8818 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmq.cu
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmq.cu
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ void ggml_cuda_op_mul_mat_q(
     // nrows_dst == nrows of the matrix that the kernel writes into
     const int64_t nrows_dst = id == ctx.device ? ne0 : row_diff;
 
-    const mmq_args args = {src0_dd_i, src1_ddq_i, dst_dd_i, ne00, row_diff, stride00, src1_padded_row_size, src1_ncols, ne11, nrows_dst};
+    // The stream-k decomposition is only faster for recent NVIDIA GPUs.
+    // Also its fixup needs to allocate a temporary buffer in the memory pool.
+    // There are multiple parallel CUDA streams for src1_ncols != ne11 which would introduce a race condition for this buffer.
+    const bool use_stream_k = compute_capability >= CC_VOLTA && compute_capability < CC_OFFSET_AMD && src1_ncols == ne11;
+    const mmq_args args = {src0_dd_i, src1_ddq_i, dst_dd_i, ne00, row_diff, stride00, src1_padded_row_size, src1_ncols, ne11, nrows_dst, use_stream_k};
 
     switch (src0->type) {
         case GGML_TYPE_Q4_0:
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmq.cuh b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmq.cuh
index e8a957447..021a25682 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmq.cuh
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmq.cuh
@@ -2742,6 +2742,7 @@ struct mmq_args {
     int64_t ne00; int64_t ne01; int64_t stride01;
     int64_t ne10; int64_t ne11; int64_t stride11;
     int64_t ne0;
+    bool use_stream_k;
 };
 
 template<ggml_type type>
@@ -2777,8 +2778,7 @@ static void launch_mul_mat_q(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, const mmq_args & a
     const int ntx = (args.ne11 + mmq_x - 1) / mmq_x;
     const dim3 block_nums_xy_tiling(nty, ntx, 1);
 
-    const bool use_stream_k = cc >= CC_VOLTA && cc < CC_OFFSET_AMD;
-    if (!use_stream_k) {
+    if (!args.use_stream_k) {
         if (args.ne01 % mmq_y == 0) {
             constexpr bool need_check = false;
             mul_mat_q<type, mmq_x, MMQ_NWARPS, need_check><<<block_nums_xy_tiling, block_dims, shmem, stream>>>