diff --git a/scripts/export_and_compile.sh b/scripts/export_and_compile.sh
index b6ae926d80..ab4460e7ed 100755
--- a/scripts/export_and_compile.sh
+++ b/scripts/export_and_compile.sh
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ elif [[ $DTYPE = "fp8" ]]; then
         --output-mlir=$OUTPUT_DIR/output.mlir \
         --output-config=$OUTPUT_DIR/config_attn.json \
         --bs-prefill=$PREFILL_BS --bs-decode=$DECODE_BS --attention-kernel sharktank \
-        --use-hf --device-block-count 8043
+        --use-hf --device-block-count 8043 --kv-cache-dtype=$KV_CACHE_DTYPE
 
 elif [[ $DTYPE = "mistral_fp8" ]]; then
     python3 -m sharktank.examples.export_paged_llm_v1 --irpa-file=$IRPA_PATH \