diff --git a/src/mm/dbcsr_mm_accdrv.F b/src/mm/dbcsr_mm_accdrv.F
index 5a4cc28f05b..8c69ad07dd0 100644
--- a/src/mm/dbcsr_mm_accdrv.F
+++ b/src/mm/dbcsr_mm_accdrv.F
@@ -531,6 +531,9 @@ SUBROUTINE dbcsr_mm_accdrv_process(this, left, right, params, stack_size, &
       IF (success) THEN
          CALL acc_event_record(stackbuf%calculated, stream=stackbuf%stream)
       ELSE
+         IF (dbcsr_cfg%use_acc_g2g%val) THEN
+            DBCSR_ABORT("MPI G2G requires all kernels to be evaluated on the GPU!")
+         END IF
          this%do_gpu_c_redux = .TRUE.
       END IF