diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6694e500..278e5e3a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ Optionally, you can use the following command-line flags:
 | `--no_inject_fused_mlp`        | Triton mode only: disable the use of fused MLP, which will use less VRAM at the cost of slower inference. |
 | `--no_use_cuda_fp16`           | This can make models faster on some systems. |
 | `--desc_act`                   | For models that don't have a quantize_config.json, this parameter is used to define whether to set desc_act or not in BaseQuantizeConfig. |
+| `--disable_exllama`            | Disable ExLlama kernel, which can improve inference speed on some systems. |
 
 #### ExLlama
 
diff --git a/modules/AutoGPTQ_loader.py b/modules/AutoGPTQ_loader.py
index 0d41ac0a..987f5ba7 100644
--- a/modules/AutoGPTQ_loader.py
+++ b/modules/AutoGPTQ_loader.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ def load_quantized(model_name):
         'max_memory': get_max_memory_dict(),
         'quantize_config': quantize_config,
         'use_cuda_fp16': not shared.args.no_use_cuda_fp16,
+        'disable_exllama': shared.args.disable_exllama,
     }
 
     logger.info(f"The AutoGPTQ params are: {params}")
diff --git a/modules/loaders.py b/modules/loaders.py
index 9a222a72..a96c43ea 100644
--- a/modules/loaders.py
+++ b/modules/loaders.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ loaders_and_params = OrderedDict({
         'wbits',
         'groupsize',
         'desc_act',
+        'disable_exllama',
         'gpu_memory',
         'cpu_memory',
         'cpu',
diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index cb6f0ae1..ba89fb52 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--no_inject_fused_attention', action='store_true', help='Do
 parser.add_argument('--no_inject_fused_mlp', action='store_true', help='Triton mode only: Do not use fused MLP (lowers VRAM requirements).')
 parser.add_argument('--no_use_cuda_fp16', action='store_true', help='This can make models faster on some systems.')
 parser.add_argument('--desc_act', action='store_true', help='For models that don\'t have a quantize_config.json, this parameter is used to define whether to set desc_act or not in BaseQuantizeConfig.')
+parser.add_argument('--disable_exllama', action='store_true', help='Disable ExLlama kernel, which can improve inference speed on some systems.')
 
 # ExLlama
 parser.add_argument('--gpu-split', type=str, help="Comma-separated list of VRAM (in GB) to use per GPU device for model layers, e.g. 20,7,7")
diff --git a/modules/ui.py b/modules/ui.py
index b58b7dd6..37284d25 100644
--- a/modules/ui.py
+++ b/modules/ui.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ def list_model_elements():
         'no_inject_fused_attention',
         'no_inject_fused_mlp',
         'no_use_cuda_fp16',
+        'disable_exllama',
         'threads',
         'n_batch',
         'no_mmap',
diff --git a/modules/ui_model_menu.py b/modules/ui_model_menu.py
index 7b852a44..3059f616 100644
--- a/modules/ui_model_menu.py
+++ b/modules/ui_model_menu.py
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ def create_ui():
                             shared.gradio['no_inject_fused_mlp'] = gr.Checkbox(label="no_inject_fused_mlp", value=shared.args.no_inject_fused_mlp, info='Affects Triton only. Disable fused MLP. Fused MLP improves performance but uses more VRAM. Disable if running low on VRAM.')
                             shared.gradio['no_use_cuda_fp16'] = gr.Checkbox(label="no_use_cuda_fp16", value=shared.args.no_use_cuda_fp16, info='This can make models faster on some systems.')
                             shared.gradio['desc_act'] = gr.Checkbox(label="desc_act", value=shared.args.desc_act, info='\'desc_act\', \'wbits\', and \'groupsize\' are used for old models without a quantize_config.json.')
+                            shared.gradio['disable_exllama'] = gr.Checkbox(label="disable_exllama", value=shared.args.disable_exllama, info='Disable ExLlama kernel, which can improve inference speed on some systems.')
                             shared.gradio['cpu'] = gr.Checkbox(label="cpu", value=shared.args.cpu)
                             shared.gradio['load_in_8bit'] = gr.Checkbox(label="load-in-8bit", value=shared.args.load_in_8bit)
                             shared.gradio['bf16'] = gr.Checkbox(label="bf16", value=shared.args.bf16)