diff --git a/examples/benchmark/benchmark-matmult.cpp b/examples/benchmark/benchmark-matmult.cpp
index 284733b1035c9..434e1d6bd509e 100644
--- a/examples/benchmark/benchmark-matmult.cpp
+++ b/examples/benchmark/benchmark-matmult.cpp
@@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv)  {
     const ggml_type qtype = GGML_TYPE_Q4_1;
 
     size_t ctx_size = 0;
-    ctx_size += sizex*sizey*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32);
-    ctx_size += sizex*sizey*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32);
-    ctx_size += sizex*sizez*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32);
-    ctx_size += sizex*sizey*ggml_type_sizef(qtype);
-    ctx_size += sizex*sizey*ggml_type_sizef(qtype);
-    ctx_size += sizex*sizey*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32); // BLAS
-    ctx_size += sizex*sizey*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32); // BLAS
+    ctx_size += ggml_row_size(GGML_TYPE_F32, sizex*sizey);
+    ctx_size += ggml_row_size(GGML_TYPE_F32, sizex*sizey);
+    ctx_size += ggml_row_size(GGML_TYPE_F32, sizex*sizez);
+    ctx_size += ggml_row_size(qtype,         sizex*sizey);
+    ctx_size += ggml_row_size(qtype,         sizex*sizey);
+    ctx_size += ggml_row_size(GGML_TYPE_F32, sizex*sizey); // BLAS
+    ctx_size += ggml_row_size(GGML_TYPE_F32, sizex*sizey); // BLAS
     ctx_size += 1024*1024*16;
 
     printf("Allocating Memory of size %zi bytes, %zi MB\n",ctx_size, (ctx_size/1024/1024));
diff --git a/ggml.c b/ggml.c
index 7e1272817388c..f0a972690aea5 100644
--- a/ggml.c
+++ b/ggml.c
@@ -2011,8 +2011,13 @@ size_t ggml_type_size(enum ggml_type type) {
     return type_traits[type].type_size;
 }
 
-float ggml_type_sizef(enum ggml_type type) {
-    return ((float)(type_traits[type].type_size))/type_traits[type].blck_size;
+size_t ggml_row_size(enum ggml_type type, int64_t ne) {
+    assert(ne % ggml_blck_size(type) == 0);
+    return ggml_type_size(type)*ne/ggml_blck_size(type);
+}
+
+double ggml_type_sizef(enum ggml_type type) {
+    return ((double)(type_traits[type].type_size))/type_traits[type].blck_size;
 }
 
 const char * ggml_type_name(enum ggml_type type) {
diff --git a/ggml.h b/ggml.h
index 1447646b13c43..ae8101fab3d6d 100644
--- a/ggml.h
+++ b/ggml.h
@@ -641,9 +641,13 @@ extern "C" {
     GGML_API size_t  ggml_nbytes_pad  (const struct ggml_tensor * tensor); // same as ggml_nbytes() but padded to GGML_MEM_ALIGN
     GGML_API size_t  ggml_nbytes_split(const struct ggml_tensor * tensor, int nrows_split);
 
-    GGML_API int     ggml_blck_size (enum ggml_type type);
-    GGML_API size_t  ggml_type_size (enum ggml_type type); // size in bytes for all elements in a block
-    GGML_API float   ggml_type_sizef(enum ggml_type type); // ggml_type_size()/ggml_blck_size() as float
+    GGML_API int    ggml_blck_size(enum ggml_type type);
+    GGML_API size_t ggml_type_size(enum ggml_type type);             // size in bytes for all elements in a block
+    GGML_API size_t ggml_row_size (enum ggml_type type, int64_t ne); // size in bytes for all elements in a row
+
+    GGML_DEPRECATED(
+    GGML_API double ggml_type_sizef(enum ggml_type type), // ggml_type_size()/ggml_blck_size() as float
+    "use ggml_row_size() instead");
 
     GGML_API const char * ggml_type_name(enum ggml_type type);
     GGML_API const char * ggml_op_name  (enum ggml_op   op);
diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 0e5ab044cdfa4..456807d9d5a3a 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@ static bool llama_kv_cache_init(
     cache.cells.clear();
     cache.cells.resize(n_ctx);
 
-    cache.buf.resize(n_elements*(ggml_type_sizef(ktype) + ggml_type_sizef(vtype)) + 2u*n_layer*ggml_tensor_overhead());
+    cache.buf.resize(ggml_row_size(ktype, n_elements) + ggml_row_size(vtype, n_elements) + 2u*n_layer*ggml_tensor_overhead());
     memset(cache.buf.data, 0, cache.buf.size);
 
     struct ggml_init_params params;
@@ -3822,8 +3822,8 @@ static void llm_build_k_shift(
             ggml_rope_custom_inplace(ctx,
                     ggml_view_3d(ctx, kv.k_l[il],
                         n_embd_head, n_head_kv, n_ctx,
-                        ggml_type_sizef(kv.k_l[il]->type)*n_embd_head,
-                        ggml_type_sizef(kv.k_l[il]->type)*n_embd_gqa,
+                        ggml_row_size(kv.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_head),
+                        ggml_row_size(kv.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_gqa),
                         0),
                     K_shift, n_rot, rope_type, 0, n_orig_ctx, freq_base, freq_scale,
                     ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow);
@@ -3852,7 +3852,7 @@ static void llm_build_kv_store(
     cb(v_cur_t, "v_cur_t", il);
 
     struct ggml_tensor * k_cache_view = ggml_view_1d(ctx, kv.k_l[il], n_tokens*n_embd_gqa,
-            (ggml_type_sizef(kv.k_l[il]->type)*n_embd_gqa)*kv_head);
+            (ggml_row_size(kv.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_gqa))*kv_head);
     cb(k_cache_view, "k_cache_view", il);
 
     struct ggml_tensor * v_cache_view = ggml_view_2d(ctx, kv.v_l[il], n_tokens, n_embd_gqa,
@@ -4011,8 +4011,8 @@ static struct ggml_tensor * llm_build_kqv(
     struct ggml_tensor * k =
         ggml_view_3d(ctx, kv.k_l[il],
                 n_embd_head, n_kv, n_head_kv,
-                ggml_type_sizef(kv.k_l[il]->type)*n_embd_gqa,
-                ggml_type_sizef(kv.k_l[il]->type)*n_embd_head,
+                ggml_row_size(kv.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_gqa),
+                ggml_row_size(kv.k_l[il]->type, n_embd_head),
                 0);
     cb(k, "k", il);