diff --git a/csrc/ops.h b/csrc/ops.h
index 567d9fae4b..4952e826ec 100644
--- a/csrc/ops.h
+++ b/csrc/ops.h
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ int cutlass_scaled_mm_dq(torch::Tensor& out, torch::Tensor const& a,
 
 #endif
 
-void static_scaled_int8_quant(torch::Tensor& out, torch::Tensor& input,
-                              float scale);
+void static_scaled_int8_quant(torch::Tensor& out, torch::Tensor const& input,
+                              torch::Tensor const& scale);
 
 void squeezellm_gemm(torch::Tensor vec, torch::Tensor mat, torch::Tensor mul,
                      torch::Tensor lookup_table);
diff --git a/csrc/quantization/compressed_tensors/int8_quant_kernels.cu b/csrc/quantization/compressed_tensors/int8_quant_kernels.cu
index 4902e4c234..11baa5d414 100644
--- a/csrc/quantization/compressed_tensors/int8_quant_kernels.cu
+++ b/csrc/quantization/compressed_tensors/int8_quant_kernels.cu
@@ -28,9 +28,10 @@ namespace vllm {
 template <typename scalar_t, typename scale_type>
 __global__ void static_scaled_int8_quant_kernel(
     const scalar_t* __restrict__ input, int8_t* __restrict__ out,
-    scale_type scale, const int hidden_size) {
+    const scale_type* scale_ptr, const int hidden_size) {
   const int tid = threadIdx.x;
   const int token_idx = blockIdx.x;
+  scale_type scale = *scale_ptr;
 
   for (int i = tid; i < hidden_size; i += blockDim.x) {
     out[token_idx * hidden_size + i] =
@@ -39,11 +40,13 @@ __global__ void static_scaled_int8_quant_kernel(
 }
 }  // namespace vllm
 
-void static_scaled_int8_quant(torch::Tensor& out,    // [..., hidden_size]
-                              torch::Tensor& input,  // [..., hidden_size]
-                              float scale) {
+void static_scaled_int8_quant(torch::Tensor& out,          // [..., hidden_size]
+                              torch::Tensor const& input,  // [..., hidden_size]
+                              torch::Tensor const& scale) {
   TORCH_CHECK(input.is_contiguous());
   TORCH_CHECK(out.is_contiguous());
+  TORCH_CHECK(scale.numel() == 1);
+
   int hidden_size = input.size(-1);
   int num_tokens = input.numel() / hidden_size;
   dim3 grid(num_tokens);
@@ -53,7 +56,7 @@ void static_scaled_int8_quant(torch::Tensor& out,    // [..., hidden_size]
       input.scalar_type(), "static_scaled_int8_quant_kernel", [&] {
         vllm::static_scaled_int8_quant_kernel<scalar_t, float>
             <<<grid, block, 0, stream>>>(input.data_ptr<scalar_t>(),
-                                         out.data_ptr<int8_t>(), scale,
-                                         hidden_size);
+                                         out.data_ptr<int8_t>(),
+                                         scale.data_ptr<float>(), hidden_size);
       });
 }
diff --git a/tests/kernels/test_int8_quant.py b/tests/kernels/test_int8_quant.py
index b9aa00ce13..29890118c9 100644
--- a/tests/kernels/test_int8_quant.py
+++ b/tests/kernels/test_int8_quant.py
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ def test_quant(num_tokens: int, hidden_size: int, dtype: torch.dtype,
         torch.iinfo(torch.int8).min,
         torch.iinfo(torch.int8).max).to(torch.int8)
     out2 = torch.empty_like(x, dtype=torch.int8)
-    ops.static_scaled_int8_quant(out2, x, scale)
+    scale_argument = torch.tensor([scale], dtype=torch.float32, device="cuda")
+
+    ops.static_scaled_int8_quant(out2, x, scale_argument)
     assert torch.allclose(out1, out2,
                           atol=1)  # big atol to account for rounding errors
diff --git a/vllm/_custom_ops.py b/vllm/_custom_ops.py
index 22cf5a44e3..8a6f6d96d8 100644
--- a/vllm/_custom_ops.py
+++ b/vllm/_custom_ops.py
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ def scaled_fp8_quant(
 
 # int8
 def static_scaled_int8_quant(input: torch.Tensor,
-                             scale: float) -> torch.Tensor:
+                             scale: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
     """
     Quantize the input tensor to int8 and return the quantized tensor.
 
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/compressed_tensors/schemes/compressed_tensors_w8a8_statictensor.py b/vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/compressed_tensors/schemes/compressed_tensors_w8a8_statictensor.py
index 7e3e932cfe..2dfc6e2b07 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/compressed_tensors/schemes/compressed_tensors_w8a8_statictensor.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/compressed_tensors/schemes/compressed_tensors_w8a8_statictensor.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class CompressedTensorsW8A8StaticTensor(CompressedTensorsScheme):
         act_scale = layer.input_scale
 
         # Input quantize
-        x_q = custom_ops.static_scaled_int8_quant(x, act_scale[0].item())
+        x_q = custom_ops.static_scaled_int8_quant(x, act_scale)
 
         return custom_ops.cutlass_scaled_mm_dq(x_q, weight.t(), act_scale,
                                                weight_scale, x.dtype)