diff --git a/examples/trl/README.md b/examples/trl/README.md
index 18fb0fc0fa..b42919c48d 100644
--- a/examples/trl/README.md
+++ b/examples/trl/README.md
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ $ pip install -U -r requirements.txt
         --use_flash_attention
     ```
 
-2. Supervised fine-tuning of the mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1 on 4 cards:
+2. Supervised fine-tuning of the mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 on 4 cards:
 
     ```
     DEEPSPEED_HPU_ZERO3_SYNC_MARK_STEP_REQUIRED=1 python ../gaudi_spawn.py --world_size 4 --use_deepspeed sft.py \
-        --model_name_or_path mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1 \
+        --model_name_or_path mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 \
         --dataset_name "philschmid/dolly-15k-oai-style" \
         --subset 'data/' \
         --streaming False \
diff --git a/optimum/habana/transformers/modeling_utils.py b/optimum/habana/transformers/modeling_utils.py
index ee092ecff9..04d973074b 100644
--- a/optimum/habana/transformers/modeling_utils.py
+++ b/optimum/habana/transformers/modeling_utils.py
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@
     gaudi_mistral_rmsnorm_forward,
     gaudi_mixtral_block_dynamic_moe_forward,
     gaudi_mixtral_block_sparse_moe_forward,
+    gaudi_mixtral_block_moe_forward,
     gaudi_mixtral_rmsnorm_forward,
     gaudi_opt_attention_forward,
     gaudi_opt_decoder_forward,
@@ -555,15 +556,15 @@ def adapt_transformers_to_gaudi():
     transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralAttention = GaudiMixtralAttention
     transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralForCausalLM = GaudiMixtralForCausalLM
     transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralModel = GaudiMixtralModel
-    # We need this workaround until moe op in hpu is supporting fp8
-    if os.environ.get("QUANT_CONFIG"):
-        transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralSparseMoeBlock.forward = (
-            gaudi_mixtral_block_sparse_moe_forward
-        )
-    else:
-        transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralSparseMoeBlock.forward = (
-            gaudi_mixtral_block_dynamic_moe_forward
-        )
+    transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralSparseMoeBlock.sparse_moe_forward = (
+        gaudi_mixtral_block_sparse_moe_forward
+    )
+    transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralSparseMoeBlock.dynamic_moe_forward = (
+        gaudi_mixtral_block_dynamic_moe_forward
+    )
+    transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralSparseMoeBlock.forward = (
+        gaudi_mixtral_block_moe_forward
+    )
     transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralDecoderLayer = GaudiMixtralDecoderLayer
     transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral.MixtralRMSNorm.forward = gaudi_mixtral_rmsnorm_forward
     transformers.models.mixtral.configuration_mixtral.MixtralConfig = MixtralConfig
diff --git a/optimum/habana/transformers/models/__init__.py b/optimum/habana/transformers/models/__init__.py
index 2a5e685942..73ed672b6f 100644
--- a/optimum/habana/transformers/models/__init__.py
+++ b/optimum/habana/transformers/models/__init__.py
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@
     MixtralConfig,
     gaudi_mixtral_block_dynamic_moe_forward,
     gaudi_mixtral_block_sparse_moe_forward,
+    gaudi_mixtral_block_moe_forward,
     gaudi_mixtral_rmsnorm_forward,
 )
 from .mllama import (
diff --git a/optimum/habana/transformers/models/mixtral/__init__.py b/optimum/habana/transformers/models/mixtral/__init__.py
index 6225ac0906..c6fafa64f1 100644
--- a/optimum/habana/transformers/models/mixtral/__init__.py
+++ b/optimum/habana/transformers/models/mixtral/__init__.py
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@
     GaudiMixtralModel,
     gaudi_mixtral_block_dynamic_moe_forward,
     gaudi_mixtral_block_sparse_moe_forward,
+    gaudi_mixtral_block_moe_forward,
     gaudi_mixtral_rmsnorm_forward,
 )
diff --git a/optimum/habana/transformers/models/mixtral/modeling_mixtral.py b/optimum/habana/transformers/models/mixtral/modeling_mixtral.py
index 2f6ef4d093..5288b39bb3 100644
--- a/optimum/habana/transformers/models/mixtral/modeling_mixtral.py
+++ b/optimum/habana/transformers/models/mixtral/modeling_mixtral.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 
 """PyTorch Mixtral model."""
 
+import os
+
 import contextlib
 import math
 from typing import List, Optional, Tuple, Union
@@ -357,6 +359,15 @@ def forward(
         return attn_output, attn_weights, past_key_value
 
 
+def gaudi_mixtral_block_moe_forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+
+    # We need this workaround until moe op in hpu is supporting fp8
+    if not self.training and not os.environ.get("QUANT_CONFIG"):
+        return self.dynamic_moe_forward(hidden_states)
+
+    return self.sparse_moe_forward(hidden_states)
+
+
 def gaudi_mixtral_block_sparse_moe_forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
     """
     Copied from MixtralSparseMoeBlock.forward: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v4.37.0/src/transformers/models/mixtral/modeling_mixtral.py