diff --git a/benchmarks/single_node/minimaxm2.5_fp8_mi300x.sh b/benchmarks/single_node/minimaxm2.5_fp8_mi300x.sh
index 65cb8ee8e..21c44f2d8 100755
--- a/benchmarks/single_node/minimaxm2.5_fp8_mi300x.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/single_node/minimaxm2.5_fp8_mi300x.sh
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ if [ -n "$ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES" ]; then
 fi
 
 export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER=1
+export VLLM_ROCM_SHUFFLE_KV_CACHE_LAYOUT=1
 
 SERVER_LOG=/workspace/server.log
 PORT=${PORT:-8888}
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ vllm serve $MODEL --port $PORT \
 --max-model-len $MAX_MODEL_LEN \
 --block-size=32 \
 --no-enable-prefix-caching \
+--attention-backend "ROCM_AITER_FA" \
 --trust-remote-code > $SERVER_LOG 2>&1 &
 
 SERVER_PID=$!
diff --git a/perf-changelog.yaml b/perf-changelog.yaml
index 684d40dcc..22143c7f8 100644
--- a/perf-changelog.yaml
+++ b/perf-changelog.yaml
@@ -3068,3 +3068,9 @@
   description:
     - "Bump image to rocm/sgl-dev:rocm720-mi35x-8c3b5aa-20260521-DSv4"
   pr-link: https://github.com/SemiAnalysisAI/InferenceX/pull/1548
+
+- config-keys:
+    - minimaxm2.5-fp8-mi300x-vllm
+  description:
+    - "Add VLLM_ROCM_SHUFFLE_KV_CACHE_LAYOUT=1 + --attention-backend ROCM_AITER_FA (match AMD-recommended AITER recipe pattern used on mi355x)"
+  pr-link: https://github.com/SemiAnalysisAI/InferenceX/pull/1550