diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fattn-common.cuh b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fattn-common.cuh
index ae4318cbc881..85d34024fc68 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fattn-common.cuh
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/fattn-common.cuh
@@ -1112,6 +1112,13 @@ void launch_fattn(
     int max_blocks_per_sm = 1; // Max. number of active blocks limited by occupancy.
     CUDA_CHECK(cudaOccupancyMaxActiveBlocksPerMultiprocessor(&max_blocks_per_sm, fattn_kernel, block_dim.x * block_dim.y * block_dim.z, nbytes_shared));
     GGML_ASSERT(max_blocks_per_sm > 0);
+    // Batch-invariant mode: the KV split must not depend on which template instance runs. Occupancy differs
+    // between the 1-query and the multi-query instances (registers, shared memory), so size the split from a
+    // fixed blocks-per-SM instead; that only shifts work between waves.
+    // (Stream-k launches keep the real occupancy: their instance is fixed per batch size range already.)
+    if (ggml_cuda_batch_invariant() && !stream_k) {
+        max_blocks_per_sm = 4;
+    }
     int parallel_blocks = max_blocks_per_sm;
 
     const int ntiles_KV = (K->ne[1] + nbatch_fa - 1) / nbatch_fa; // Max. number of parallel blocks limited by KV cache length.
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmvq.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmvq.cu
index 0008fdefc4b5..ca045218d2cf 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmvq.cu
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmvq.cu
@@ -299,8 +299,15 @@ bool ggml_cuda_should_use_mmvq(enum ggml_type type, int cc, int64_t ne11) {
     if (type == GGML_TYPE_PTQ1_0 && GGML_CUDA_CC_IS_NVIDIA(cc) && cc >= GGML_CUDA_CC_TURING) {
         // The PT mat-vec path shares the weight decode across columns; with the branch-free PTQ1_0
         // MMQ tile loader the tile path overtakes it at 5+ columns on Ada (RTX 4070, Bonsai 2 27B:
-        // mat-vec 155 t/s vs MMQ 244 t/s at n=8).
-        return ne11 <= 4;
+        // mat-vec 155 t/s vs MMQ 244 t/s at n=8; at n=5 172 vs 162). Under GGML_CUDA_BATCH_INVARIANT every
+        // batch up to MMVQ_MAX_BATCH_SIZE stays on the PT mat-vec, whose per-column arithmetic does not depend
+        // on the column count: a 5-column speculative verify on MMQ would not match the same tokens decoded
+        // alone. GGML_CUDA_PTQ1_MMVQ_MAX overrides the crossover.
+        static const int max_cols = [] {
+            const char * e = getenv("GGML_CUDA_PTQ1_MMVQ_MAX");
+            return e ? atoi(e) : (ggml_cuda_batch_invariant() ? MMVQ_MAX_BATCH_SIZE : 4);
+        }();
+        return ne11 <= max_cols;
     }
 #endif
     // k-quants cost more to decode and mvq redoes that per column, so MMQ wins sooner.