diff --git a/src/broadcom/vulkan/v3dv_device.c b/src/broadcom/vulkan/v3dv_device.c
index c4307f84504..f8adb03b3c3 100644
--- a/src/broadcom/vulkan/v3dv_device.c
+++ b/src/broadcom/vulkan/v3dv_device.c
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ get_features(const struct v3dv_physical_device *physical_device,
        * problematic, we would always have to scalarize. Overall, this would
        * not lead to best performance so let's just not support it.
        */
-      .scalarBlockLayout = false,
+      .scalarBlockLayout = physical_device->devinfo.ver >= 71,
       /* This tells applications 2 things:
        *
        * 1. If they can select just one aspect for barriers. For us barriers