diff --git a/backends/cadence/hifi/operators/op_quantized_conv2d_nhwc_out.cpp b/backends/cadence/hifi/operators/op_quantized_conv2d_nhwc_out.cpp
index 58859a78dd2..c7c9fd9ef8c 100644
--- a/backends/cadence/hifi/operators/op_quantized_conv2d_nhwc_out.cpp
+++ b/backends/cadence/hifi/operators/op_quantized_conv2d_nhwc_out.cpp
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ void xa_opt_quantized_conv2d_nhwc(
     WORD32 scratch_size = 0;
 
     if (groups == 1) {
-      WORD32 out_data_format = 1;
+      WORD32 out_data_format = 0;
 
       scratch_size = xa_nn_conv2d_getsize(
           input_height,