diff --git a/tests/test_v1_worker.py b/tests/test_v1_worker.py
index 7b0185f0..2d24833f 100644
--- a/tests/test_v1_worker.py
+++ b/tests/test_v1_worker.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 pytest.importorskip("vllm", reason="vllm not installed")
 
 from vllm_metal.stt.policy import STT_SCHED_AVAILABLE_BYTES  # noqa: E402
+from vllm_metal.v1 import model_runner as mr  # noqa: E402
 from vllm_metal.v1.worker import MetalWorker  # noqa: E402
 
 
@@ -178,6 +179,32 @@ def test_hybrid_adds_linear_state(self) -> None:
         sdpa_bytes = 2 * 8 * 2048 * 4 * 256 * 2
         assert result == sdpa_bytes + linear_bytes
 
+    def test_linear_cache_bytes_uses_float32_recurrent(self) -> None:
+        runner = mr.MetalModelRunner.__new__(mr.MetalModelRunner)
+        runner.model_args = {"full_attention_interval": 2}
+        runner.kv_cache_dtype = mx.float16
+        runner.linear_conv_kernel_dim = 3
+        runner.linear_conv_dim = 5
+        runner.linear_num_v_heads = 2
+        runner.linear_value_head_dim = 7
+        runner.linear_key_head_dim = 11
+        runner.num_linear_layers = 3
+
+        conv_bytes = (
+            (runner.linear_conv_kernel_dim - 1)
+            * runner.linear_conv_dim
+            * mx.float16.size
+        )
+        recurrent_bytes = (
+            runner.linear_num_v_heads
+            * runner.linear_value_head_dim
+            * runner.linear_key_head_dim
+            * mx.float32.size
+        )
+        expected = runner.num_linear_layers * (conv_bytes + recurrent_bytes)
+
+        assert runner.linear_cache_bytes_per_slot() == expected
+
     def test_block_alignment_rounds_up_token_count(self) -> None:
         """When block_size doesn't divide max_model_len evenly, the token
         count must be rounded up to the next block boundary so that the
diff --git a/vllm_metal/v1/model_runner.py b/vllm_metal/v1/model_runner.py
index a7bf3c93..59ec3e4e 100644
--- a/vllm_metal/v1/model_runner.py
+++ b/vllm_metal/v1/model_runner.py
@@ -1176,6 +1176,8 @@ def linear_cache_bytes_per_slot(self) -> int:
         if self.kv_cache_dtype is None:
             raise RuntimeError("KV cache dtype not initialized; load_model() first")
         dtype_size = self.kv_cache_dtype.size
+        # GDN recurrent state is always float32 (see GDNPagedStateCache).
+        recurrent_dtype_size = mx.float32.size
         conv_bytes = (
             (self.linear_conv_kernel_dim - 1) * self.linear_conv_dim * dtype_size
         )
@@ -1183,7 +1185,7 @@ def linear_cache_bytes_per_slot(self) -> int:
             self.linear_num_v_heads
             * self.linear_value_head_dim
             * self.linear_key_head_dim
-            * dtype_size
+            * recurrent_dtype_size
         )
         return self.num_linear_layers * (conv_bytes + recurrent_bytes)