diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 062c9757b5398..c2ad048699472 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -4814,92 +4814,34 @@ struct llm_build_context {
             // self-attention
             {
                 // compute Q and K and RoPE them
-                struct ggml_tensor * tmpq = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wq, cur);
-                cb(tmpq, "tmpq", il);
+                struct ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wq, cur);
+                cb(Qcur, "Qcur", il);
 
-                struct ggml_tensor * tmpk = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wk, cur);
-                cb(tmpk, "tmpk", il);
+                struct ggml_tensor * Kcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wk, cur);
+                cb(Kcur, "Kcur", il);
 
                 struct ggml_tensor * Vcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wv, cur);
                 cb(Vcur, "Vcur", il);
 
-                // RoPE the first n_rot of q/k, pass the other half, and concat.
-                struct ggml_tensor * qrot = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_view_3d(
-                        ctx0, tmpq, hparams.n_rot, n_head, n_tokens,
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpq) * n_embd_head,
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpq) * n_embd_head * n_head,
-                        0
-                        ));
-                cb(qrot, "qrot", il);
-
-                struct ggml_tensor * krot = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_view_3d(
-                        ctx0, tmpk, hparams.n_rot, n_head, n_tokens,
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpk) * n_embd_head,
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpk) * n_embd_head * n_head_kv,
-                        0
-                        ));
-                cb(krot, "krot", il);
-
-                // get the second half of tmpq, e.g tmpq[n_rot:, :, :]
-                struct ggml_tensor * qpass = ggml_view_3d(
-                        ctx0, tmpq, (n_embd_head - hparams.n_rot), n_head, n_tokens,
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpq) * n_embd_head,
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpq) * n_embd_head * n_head,
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpq) * hparams.n_rot
-                        );
-                cb(qpass, "qpass", il);
-
-                struct ggml_tensor * kpass = ggml_view_3d(
-                        ctx0, tmpk, (n_embd_head - hparams.n_rot), n_head_kv, n_tokens,
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpk) * (n_embd_head),
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpk) * (n_embd_head) * n_head_kv,
-                        ggml_element_size(tmpk) * hparams.n_rot
-                        );
-                cb(kpass, "kpass", il);
-
-                struct ggml_tensor * qrotated = ggml_rope_custom(
-                    ctx0, qrot, inp_pos, hparams.n_rot, 2, 0, n_orig_ctx,
-                    freq_base, freq_scale, ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow
-                );
-                cb(qrotated, "qrotated", il);
-
-                struct ggml_tensor * krotated = ggml_rope_custom(
-                    ctx0, krot, inp_pos, hparams.n_rot, 2, 0, n_orig_ctx,
-                    freq_base, freq_scale, ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow
+                Qcur = ggml_rope_custom(
+                    ctx0, ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, Qcur, n_embd_head, n_head,    n_tokens), inp_pos,
+                    hparams.n_rot, 2, 0, n_orig_ctx, freq_base, freq_scale,
+                    ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow
                 );
-                cb(krotated, "krotated", il);
-
-                // ggml currently only supports concatenation on dim=2
-                // so we need to permute qrot, qpass, concat, then permute back.
-                qrotated = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, qrotated, 2, 1, 0, 3));
-                cb(qrotated, "qrotated", il);
-
-                krotated = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, krotated, 2, 1, 0, 3));
-                cb(krotated, "krotated", il);
-
-                qpass = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, qpass, 2, 1, 0, 3));
-                cb(qpass, "qpass", il);
-
-                kpass = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, kpass, 2, 1, 0, 3));
-                cb(kpass, "kpass", il);
-
-                struct ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_concat(ctx0, qrotated, qpass);
                 cb(Qcur, "Qcur", il);
 
-                struct ggml_tensor * Kcur = ggml_concat(ctx0, krotated, kpass);
-                cb(Kcur, "Kcur", il);
-
-                struct ggml_tensor * Q = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, Qcur, 2, 1, 0, 3));
-                cb(Q, "Q", il);
-
-                Kcur = ggml_cont(ctx0, ggml_permute(ctx0, Kcur, 2, 1, 0, 3));
+                Kcur = ggml_rope_custom(
+                    ctx0, ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, Kcur, n_embd_head, n_head_kv, n_tokens), inp_pos,
+                    hparams.n_rot, 2, 0, n_orig_ctx, freq_base, freq_scale,
+                    ext_factor, attn_factor, beta_fast, beta_slow
+                );
                 cb(Kcur, "Kcur", il);
 
                 llm_build_kv_store(ctx0, hparams, kv_self, gf, Kcur, Vcur, n_ctx, n_tokens, kv_head, cb, il);
 
                 cur = llm_build_kqv(ctx0, hparams, kv_self,
                         model.layers[il].wo, NULL,
-                        Q, KQ_scale, KQ_mask, n_ctx, n_tokens, n_kv, -1.0f, cb, il);
+                        Qcur, KQ_scale, KQ_mask, n_ctx, n_tokens, n_kv, -1.0f, cb, il);
                 cb(cur, "kqv_out", il);
             }