diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/abstract.py b/vllm/attention/backends/abstract.py
index 5f0a540135402..0cd95e0749d13 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/abstract.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/abstract.py
@@ -294,3 +294,7 @@ class MLAAttentionImpl(AttentionImpl[T], Generic[T]):
         output: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+def is_quantized_kv_cache(kv_cache_dtype: str) -> bool:
+    return kv_cache_dtype != "auto"
diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/flash_attn.py b/vllm/attention/backends/flash_attn.py
index 5aca10079f9be..0e331efa6a392 100755
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/flash_attn.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/flash_attn.py
@@ -8,11 +8,15 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Type
 import torch
 
 from vllm import _custom_ops as ops
+# yapf conflicts with isort for this block
+# yapf: disable
 from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionBackend, AttentionImpl,
                                               AttentionLayer,
                                               AttentionMetadata,
                                               AttentionMetadataBuilder,
-                                              AttentionType)
+                                              AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
+# yapf: enable
 from vllm.attention.backends.utils import (
     PAD_SLOT_ID, CommonAttentionState, compute_slot_mapping,
     compute_slot_mapping_start_idx, get_flash_attn_version,
@@ -626,6 +630,9 @@ class FlashAttentionImpl(AttentionImpl):
         self.sliding_window = ((sliding_window - 1,
                                 0) if sliding_window is not None else (-1, -1))
         self.kv_cache_dtype = kv_cache_dtype
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(self.kv_cache_dtype):
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "FlashAttention with FP8 KV cache not yet supported")
         if logits_soft_cap is None:
             # In flash-attn, setting logits_soft_cap as 0 means no soft cap.
             logits_soft_cap = 0
diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/flashmla.py b/vllm/attention/backends/flashmla.py
index 273c69b63ec63..5d0c230933105 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/flashmla.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/flashmla.py
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Type
 
 import torch
 
-from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import AttentionType
+from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
 from vllm.attention.backends.mla.common import (MLACommonBackend,
                                                 MLACommonImpl,
                                                 MLACommonMetadata,
@@ -207,6 +208,10 @@ class FlashMLAImpl(MLACommonImpl[FlashMLAMetadata]):
                                       "are not implemented for "
                                       "FlashMLAImpl")
 
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(self.kv_cache_dtype):
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "FlashMLA with FP8 KV cache not yet supported")
+
     def _forward_decode(
         self,
         q_nope: torch.Tensor,
@@ -215,8 +220,6 @@ class FlashMLAImpl(MLACommonImpl[FlashMLAMetadata]):
         attn_metadata: FlashMLAMetadata,
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         assert kv_c_and_k_pe_cache.numel() > 0
-        if self.kv_cache_dtype.startswith("fp8"):
-            raise NotImplementedError("FP8 FlashMLA not yet supported")
 
         decode_meta = attn_metadata.decode_metadata
         assert decode_meta is not None
diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/hpu_attn.py b/vllm/attention/backends/hpu_attn.py
index 9eb533685dbd2..f948fbc0a1096 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/hpu_attn.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/hpu_attn.py
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ from vllm_hpu_extension.utils import (Matmul, ModuleFusedSDPA, Softmax,
 
 from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionBackend, AttentionImpl,
                                               AttentionLayer,
-                                              AttentionMetadata, AttentionType)
+                                              AttentionMetadata, AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
 from vllm.attention.backends.utils import CommonAttentionState
 from vllm.attention.ops.hpu_paged_attn import (HPUPagedAttention,
                                                HPUPagedAttentionMetadata)
@@ -158,6 +159,10 @@ class HPUAttentionImpl(AttentionImpl, torch.nn.Module):
                                       "are not implemented for "
                                       "HPUAttentionImpl")
 
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(self.kv_cache_dtype):
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "HPUAttention with FP8 KV cache not yet supported")
+
     def forward(
         self,
         layer: AttentionLayer,
diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/ipex_attn.py b/vllm/attention/backends/ipex_attn.py
index b4879af4cf20e..d3c61ea26a02a 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/ipex_attn.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/ipex_attn.py
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ import torch
 from vllm._ipex_ops import ipex_ops
 from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionBackend, AttentionImpl,
                                               AttentionLayer,
-                                              AttentionMetadata, AttentionType)
+                                              AttentionMetadata, AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
 from vllm.attention.backends.utils import CommonAttentionState
 from vllm.attention.ops.paged_attn import (PagedAttention,
                                            PagedAttentionMetadata)
@@ -145,7 +146,7 @@ class IpexAttnBackendImpl(AttentionImpl[IpexAttnMetadata]):
             raise ValueError(
                 f"Head size {head_size} is not supported by PagedAttention. "
                 f"Supported head sizes are: {supported_head_sizes}.")
-        if kv_cache_dtype != "auto":
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(kv_cache_dtype):
             raise NotImplementedError(
                 "IPEX backend does not support FP8 KV cache. "
                 "Please use xFormers backend instead.")
diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/pallas.py b/vllm/attention/backends/pallas.py
index b61dfe63ddcaa..2ee66ab9e966e 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/pallas.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/pallas.py
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import torch_xla.experimental.custom_kernel  # Required to register custom ops.
 
 from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionBackend, AttentionImpl,
                                               AttentionLayer,
-                                              AttentionMetadata, AttentionType)
+                                              AttentionMetadata, AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
 from vllm.attention.backends.utils import CommonAttentionState
 
 
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ class PallasAttentionBackendImpl(AttentionImpl):
             raise NotImplementedError("Alibi slopes is not supported.")
         if sliding_window is not None:
             raise NotImplementedError("Sliding window is not supported.")
-        if kv_cache_dtype != "auto":
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(kv_cache_dtype):
             raise NotImplementedError("FP8 KV cache dtype is not supported.")
         if blocksparse_params is not None:
             raise NotImplementedError("Blocksparse is not supported.")
diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/torch_sdpa.py b/vllm/attention/backends/torch_sdpa.py
index 25fe6ed95c5df..37dd75da27596 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/torch_sdpa.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/torch_sdpa.py
@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Type
 import torch
 from torch.nn.functional import scaled_dot_product_attention
 
+# yapf conflicts with isort for this block
+# yapf: disable
 from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionBackend, AttentionImpl,
                                               AttentionLayer,
                                               AttentionMetadata,
                                               AttentionMetadataBuilder,
-                                              AttentionType)
+                                              AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
+# yapf: enable
 from vllm.attention.backends.utils import CommonAttentionState
 from vllm.attention.ops.ipex_attn import PagedAttention
 from vllm.attention.ops.paged_attn import PagedAttentionMetadata
@@ -427,7 +431,7 @@ class TorchSDPABackendImpl(AttentionImpl[TorchSDPAMetadata]):
             raise ValueError(
                 f"Head size {head_size} is not supported by PagedAttention. "
                 f"Supported head sizes are: {supported_head_sizes}.")
-        if kv_cache_dtype != "auto":
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(kv_cache_dtype):
             raise NotImplementedError(
                 "Torch SDPA backend does not support FP8 KV cache. "
                 "Please use xFormers backend instead.")
diff --git a/vllm/attention/backends/triton_mla.py b/vllm/attention/backends/triton_mla.py
index 08e8226ab04c0..61e5c76d9fda3 100644
--- a/vllm/attention/backends/triton_mla.py
+++ b/vllm/attention/backends/triton_mla.py
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Type
 
 import torch
 
-from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import AttentionType
+from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
 from vllm.attention.backends.mla.common import (MLACommonBackend,
                                                 MLACommonImpl,
                                                 MLACommonMetadata)
@@ -58,6 +59,10 @@ class TritonMLAImpl(MLACommonImpl[MLACommonMetadata]):
                                       "are not implemented for "
                                       "TritonMLAImpl")
 
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(self.kv_cache_dtype):
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "TritonMLA with FP8 KV cache not yet supported")
+
     def _forward_decode(
         self,
         q_nope: torch.Tensor,
@@ -66,8 +71,6 @@ class TritonMLAImpl(MLACommonImpl[MLACommonMetadata]):
         attn_metadata: MLACommonMetadata,
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         assert kv_c_and_k_pe_cache.numel() > 0
-        if self.kv_cache_dtype.startswith("fp8"):
-            raise NotImplementedError("FP8 Triton MLA not yet supported")
 
         decode_meta = attn_metadata.decode_metadata
         assert decode_meta is not None
diff --git a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flash_attn.py b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flash_attn.py
index e7c2fd412eb2d..db80e52bf0738 100755
--- a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flash_attn.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flash_attn.py
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ import numpy as np
 import torch
 
 from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionBackend, AttentionImpl,
-                                              AttentionMetadata, AttentionType)
+                                              AttentionMetadata, AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
 from vllm.attention.backends.utils import get_flash_attn_version
 from vllm.attention.ops.triton_merge_attn_states import merge_attn_states
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
@@ -180,6 +181,9 @@ class FlashAttentionImpl(AttentionImpl):
         else:
             self.sliding_window = (sliding_window - 1, 0)
         self.kv_cache_dtype = kv_cache_dtype
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(self.kv_cache_dtype):
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "FlashAttention V1 with FP8 KV cache not yet supported")
         if logits_soft_cap is None:
             # In flash-attn, setting logits_soft_cap as 0 means no soft cap.
             logits_soft_cap = 0
diff --git a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashmla.py b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashmla.py
index d5bf9cd22f1c6..143bfe35bb5e5 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashmla.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/flashmla.py
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ from typing import Any, Optional
 
 import torch
 
-from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import AttentionType
+from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
 from vllm.attention.ops.flashmla import (flash_mla_with_kvcache,
                                          get_mla_metadata,
                                          is_flashmla_supported)
@@ -115,6 +116,10 @@ class FlashMLAImpl(MLACommonImpl[FlashMLAMetadata]):
                                       "are not implemented for "
                                       "FlashMLAImpl")
 
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(self.kv_cache_dtype):
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "FlashMLA V1 with FP8 KV cache not yet supported")
+
     def _forward_decode(
         self,
         q_nope: torch.Tensor,
@@ -125,9 +130,6 @@ class FlashMLAImpl(MLACommonImpl[FlashMLAMetadata]):
         assert kv_c_and_k_pe_cache.numel() > 0
         assert attn_metadata.decode is not None
 
-        if self.kv_cache_dtype.startswith("fp8"):
-            raise NotImplementedError("FP8 FlashMLA not yet supported")
-
         q = torch.cat([q_nope, q_pe], dim=-1)\
             .unsqueeze(1) # Add seqlen dim of 1 (decode)
 
diff --git a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/triton_mla.py b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/triton_mla.py
index cef7a3a9a7274..8e7e4f10b81b8 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/triton_mla.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/attention/backends/mla/triton_mla.py
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ from typing import Any, Optional
 
 import torch
 
-from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import AttentionType
+from vllm.attention.backends.abstract import (AttentionType,
+                                              is_quantized_kv_cache)
 from vllm.attention.ops.triton_decode_attention import decode_attention_fwd
 from vllm.logger import init_logger
 from vllm.v1.attention.backends.mla.common import (MLACommonBackend,
@@ -61,6 +62,10 @@ class TritonMLAImpl(MLACommonImpl[MLACommonMetadata]):
                                       "are not implemented for "
                                       "TritonMLAImpl")
 
+        if is_quantized_kv_cache(self.kv_cache_dtype):
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "TritonMLA V1 with FP8 KV cache not yet supported")
+
     def _forward_decode(
         self,
         q_nope: torch.Tensor,