diff --git a/modules/sdnq/quantizer.py b/modules/sdnq/quantizer.py
index 57d8dd2d6..e93e8b76e 100644
--- a/modules/sdnq/quantizer.py
+++ b/modules/sdnq/quantizer.py
@@ -496,6 +496,7 @@ def sdnq_post_load_quant(
     non_blocking: bool = False,
     add_skip_keys:bool = True,
     minimum_allowed_numel: int = 16384,
+    minimum_allowed_channel_size: int = 32,
     modules_to_not_convert: list[str] | None = None,
     modules_to_not_use_matmul: list[str] | None = None,
     modules_dtype_dict: dict[str, list[str]] | None = None,
@@ -535,6 +536,7 @@ def sdnq_post_load_quant(
         non_blocking=non_blocking,
         add_skip_keys=add_skip_keys,
         minimum_allowed_numel=minimum_allowed_numel,
+        minimum_allowed_channel_size=minimum_allowed_channel_size,
         modules_to_not_convert=modules_to_not_convert,
         modules_to_not_use_matmul=modules_to_not_use_matmul,
         modules_dtype_dict=modules_dtype_dict,
@@ -873,6 +875,8 @@ class SDNQConfig(QuantizationConfigMixin):
             Disabling this option won't add model specific keys to modules_to_not_convert, modules_to_not_use_matmul and modules_dtype_dict.
         minimum_allowed_numel (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `16384`):
             Layers that have less than `minimum_allowed_numel` elements in them will be skipped and added to `modules_to_not_convert`.
+        minimum_allowed_channel_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `32`):
+            Layers that have less than `minimum_allowed_channel_size` channels in them will be skipped and added to `modules_to_not_convert`.
         modules_to_not_convert (`list`, *optional*, default to `None`):
             The list of modules to not quantize. Useful for quantizing models that explicitly require to have some
             modules left in their original precision (e.g. Whisper encoder, Llava encoder, Mixtral gate layers).
@@ -917,6 +921,7 @@ class SDNQConfig(QuantizationConfigMixin):
         non_blocking: bool = False,
         add_skip_keys: bool = True,
         minimum_allowed_numel: int = 16384,
+        minimum_allowed_channel_size: int = 32,
         modules_to_not_convert: list[str] | None = None,
         modules_to_not_use_matmul: list[str] | None = None,
         modules_dtype_dict: dict[str, list[str]] | None = None,
@@ -949,6 +954,7 @@ class SDNQConfig(QuantizationConfigMixin):
         self.non_blocking = non_blocking
         self.add_skip_keys = add_skip_keys
         self.minimum_allowed_numel = minimum_allowed_numel
+        self.minimum_allowed_channel_size = minimum_allowed_channel_size
         self.modules_to_not_convert = modules_to_not_convert
         self.modules_to_not_use_matmul = modules_to_not_use_matmul
         self.modules_dtype_dict = modules_dtype_dict
diff --git a/modules/sdnq/utils.py b/modules/sdnq/utils.py
index e79e420ce..bdc865087 100644
--- a/modules/sdnq/utils.py
+++ b/modules/sdnq/utils.py
@@ -44,13 +44,23 @@ def check_param_name_in(param_name: str, param_list: list[str]) -> str:
 
 
 def check_quant_is_allowed(layer_class_name: str, weight: torch.Tensor, quantization_config, pre_quantized: bool = False) -> bool:
-    return bool(
+    if (
         layer_class_name in allowed_types
         and weight.dtype in {torch.float64, torch.float32, torch.float16, torch.bfloat16}
         and not (layer_class_name in embedding_types and not quantization_config.quant_embedding)
         and not ((layer_class_name in conv_types or layer_class_name in conv_transpose_types) and not quantization_config.quant_conv)
-        and (pre_quantized or weight.numel() >= quantization_config.minimum_allowed_numel)
-    )
+    ):
+        if pre_quantized:
+            return True
+        if layer_class_name in conv_types:
+            channel_size = weight.shape[1]
+        elif layer_class_name in conv_transpose_types:
+            channel_size = weight.shape[0]
+        else:
+            channel_size = weight.shape[-1]
+        if channel_size >= quantization_config.minimum_allowed_channel_size and weight.numel() >= quantization_config.minimum_allowed_numel:
+            return True
+    return False
 
 
 def check_quantized_matmul_is_allowed(use_quantized_matmul: bool, output_channel_size: int, channel_size: int) -> bool: