diff --git a/test/Conversion/tritongpu_to_llvm.mlir b/test/Conversion/tritongpu_to_llvm.mlir
index 57de402ea774..1df4ff0d38d8 100644
--- a/test/Conversion/tritongpu_to_llvm.mlir
+++ b/test/Conversion/tritongpu_to_llvm.mlir
@@ -2645,3 +2645,28 @@ module attributes {"ttg.num-ctas" = 1 : i32, "ttg.num-warps" = 8 : i32, ttg.targ
     tt.return
   }
 }
+
+// -----
+
+// We had a bug where DotOp lowering treated any input where shape[1] == 1 as an
+// outer product and rejected it. This was incorrect in 3D tensors, since
+// the dimension to look at would have been shape[2].
+
+#mma = #ttg.nvidia_mma<{versionMajor = 2, versionMinor = 0, warpsPerCTA = [32, 1, 1], instrShape = [1, 16, 8]}>
+#dot_operand_a = #ttg.dot_op<{opIdx = 0, parent = #mma, kWidth = 2}>
+#dot_operand_b = #ttg.dot_op<{opIdx = 1, parent = #mma, kWidth = 2}>
+
+module attributes {"ttg.num-ctas" = 1 : i32, "ttg.num-warps" = 32 : i32, ttg.target = "cuda:100", "ttg.threads-per-warp" = 32 : i32} {
+  // CHECK-LABEL: batched_dot_3d
+  tt.func public @batched_dot_3d(
+    %arg0: tensor<32x1x32xf16, #dot_operand_a>,
+    %arg1: tensor<32x32x32xf16, #dot_operand_b>
+  ) {
+    %cst = arith.constant dense<0.000000e+00> : tensor<32x1x32xf32, #mma>
+    // CHECK: llvm.inline_asm
+    // CHECK-SAME: mma.sync.aligned.m16n8k16.row.col.f32.f16.f16.f32
+    %result = tt.dot %arg0, %arg1, %cst, inputPrecision = tf32 :
+      tensor<32x1x32xf16, #dot_operand_a> * tensor<32x32x32xf16, #dot_operand_b> -> tensor<32x1x32xf32, #mma>
+    tt.return
+  }
+}
diff --git a/third_party/nvidia/lib/TritonNVIDIAGPUToLLVM/DotOpToLLVM.cpp b/third_party/nvidia/lib/TritonNVIDIAGPUToLLVM/DotOpToLLVM.cpp
index c414bffef73a..d0de6c36f73d 100644
--- a/third_party/nvidia/lib/TritonNVIDIAGPUToLLVM/DotOpToLLVM.cpp
+++ b/third_party/nvidia/lib/TritonNVIDIAGPUToLLVM/DotOpToLLVM.cpp
@@ -60,15 +60,9 @@ struct DotOpConversion : public ConvertOpToLLVMPattern<triton::DotOp> {
     Value A = op.getA();
     Value D = op.getResult();
 
-    // Here we assume the DotOp's operands always comes from shared memory.
-    auto AShapePerCTA = getShapePerCTA(A.getType());
-    size_t reduceAxis = 1;
-    unsigned K = AShapePerCTA[reduceAxis];
-    bool isOuter = K == 1;
-
     NvidiaMmaEncodingAttr mmaLayout = dyn_cast<NvidiaMmaEncodingAttr>(
         cast<RankedTensorType>(D.getType()).getEncoding());
-    if (!isOuter && mmaLayout && supportMMA(op, mmaLayout.getVersionMajor())) {
+    if (mmaLayout && supportMMA(op, mmaLayout.getVersionMajor())) {
       if (mmaLayout.getVersionMajor() == 2) {
         bool isHopperF64 =
             computeCapability == 90 &&
@@ -106,14 +100,8 @@ struct WarpGroupDotOpConversion
     Value A = op.getA();
     TypedValue<RankedTensorType> D = op.getResult();
 
-    // Here we assume the DotOp's operands always comes from shared memory.
-    auto AShapePerCTA = getShapePerCTA(A.getType());
-    size_t reduceAxis = 1;
-    unsigned K = AShapePerCTA[reduceAxis];
-    bool isOuter = K == 1;
-
     auto mmaLayout = cast<NvidiaMmaEncodingAttr>(D.getType().getEncoding());
-    if (!isOuter && supportMMA(op.getOperand(0), mmaLayout.getVersionMajor())) {
+    if (supportMMA(op.getOperand(0), mmaLayout.getVersionMajor())) {
       return convertWGMMA(op, adaptor, getTypeConverter(), rewriter,
                           getThreadId(rewriter, loc));
     }