diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
index 38d316661..c954d071d 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
@@ -3977,6 +3977,10 @@ static vk_fa_tuning_params get_fa_tuning_params_scalar(const vk_device& device,
 
     result.d_split = std::min(std::min(result.subgroup_size, 8u), D_lsb / 4);
 
+    // Staging K/V through shared memory is a loss on AMD GCN: measured -6.7% at depth 16k and
+    // -7.4% at 32k on Polaris (head size 128). The kvsh stride of D/4+1 dwords is 4 mod 32, which
+    // costs an 8-way LDS bank conflict on wave64, and the extra shared memory cuts into occupancy
+    // that this shader is already short of. Keep it to NVIDIA.
     result.shmem_staging = (device->vendor_id == VK_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA && hsk < 256 && hsv < 256) ? 1 : 0;
 
     if (!reduce_block_rows && !ggml_vk_flash_attn_scalar_shmem_support(device, result, hsk, hsv, f32acc, k_type, v_type)) {