diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 74bce1bc3..7b423d871 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -10481,7 +10481,10 @@ static ggml_type get_k_quant_type(quantize_state_internal & qs, ggml_type new_ty
         return std::make_pair(i_layer, n_layer);
     };
 
-    if (name == tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT, "weight")) {
+    // for arches that share the same tensor between the token embeddings and the output, we quantize the token embeddings
+    // with the quantization of the output tensor
+    if (name == tn(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT, "weight") ||
+        (LLM_TENSOR_NAMES.at(arch).find(LLM_TENSOR_OUTPUT) == LLM_TENSOR_NAMES.at(arch).end() && name == "token_embd.weight")) {
         int nx = tensor->ne[0];
         if (arch == LLM_ARCH_FALCON || nx % QK_K != 0) {
             new_type = GGML_TYPE_Q8_0;
@@ -10499,9 +10502,6 @@ static ggml_type get_k_quant_type(quantize_state_internal & qs, ggml_type new_ty
         else if (ftype == LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_IQ3_XXS) {
             new_type = GGML_TYPE_Q4_K;
         }
-        else if (arch == LLM_ARCH_GEMMA) {
-            new_type = GGML_TYPE_Q8_0;
-        }
     } else if (ftype == LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_IQ2_XXS || ftype == LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_IQ2_XS || ftype == LLAMA_FTYPE_MOSTLY_IQ1_S) {
         if (name.find("attn_v.weight") != std::string::npos) {
             if (qs.model.hparams.n_gqa() >= 4 || qs.model.hparams.n_expert >= 4) new_type = GGML_TYPE_Q4_K;