diff --git a/examples/benchmarks/bert/src/bert_layers.py b/examples/benchmarks/bert/src/bert_layers.py
index 59cd9ff7..8050394f 100644
--- a/examples/benchmarks/bert/src/bert_layers.py
+++ b/examples/benchmarks/bert/src/bert_layers.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import warnings
+from functools import lru_cache
 from typing import List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 # Add folder root to path to allow us to use relative imports regardless of what directory the script is run from
@@ -78,11 +79,12 @@
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-if flash_attn_qkvpacked_func is not None:
+
+@lru_cache
+def _get_half_dtype() -> torch.dtype:
     if torch.cuda.is_bf16_supported():
-        HALF_DTYPE = torch.bfloat16
-    else:
-        HALF_DTYPE = torch.float16
+        return torch.bfloat16
+    return torch.float16
 
 
 class BertEmbeddings(nn.Module):
@@ -262,9 +264,9 @@ def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
                     # If FA2 is supported, bfloat16 must be supported
                     # as of FA2 2.4.2. (Turing GPUs not supported)
                     orig_dtype = qkv.dtype
-                    qkv = qkv.to(HALF_DTYPE)
+                    qkv = qkv.to(torch.bfloat16)
                     bias_dtype = bias.dtype
-                    bias = bias.to(HALF_DTYPE)
+                    bias = bias.to(torch.bfloat16)
 
                     attention = flash_attn_qkvpacked_func(
                         qkv, dropout_p=self.p_dropout, alibi_slopes=slopes)
@@ -277,12 +279,13 @@ def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, cu_seqlens: torch.Tensor,
                 # Triton implementation only supports 0 attention dropout
                 convert_dtype = qkv.dtype not in (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16)
                 if convert_dtype:
+                    half = _get_half_dtype()
 
                     # Triton implementation only supports fp16 and bf16
                     orig_dtype = qkv.dtype
-                    qkv = qkv.to(HALF_DTYPE)
+                    qkv = qkv.to(half)
                     bias_dtype = bias.dtype
-                    bias = bias.to(HALF_DTYPE)
+                    bias = bias.to(half)
                     attention = flash_attn_qkvpacked_func(qkv, bias)
                     attention = attention.to(orig_dtype)
                     bias = bias.to(bias_dtype)