diff --git a/ttnn/cpp/ttnn/operations/unary.hpp b/ttnn/cpp/ttnn/operations/unary.hpp
index bc2f561b17a..2ab4686b5f4 100644
--- a/ttnn/cpp/ttnn/operations/unary.hpp
+++ b/ttnn/cpp/ttnn/operations/unary.hpp
@@ -42,11 +42,12 @@ inline Tensor execute_on_worker_thread(
     const Tensor& input_tensor,
     const std::vector<tt::tt_metal::UnaryWithParam>& op_chain,
     const std::optional<MemoryConfig>& memory_config = std::nullopt) {
+    DataType output_dtype = (op_chain[0].op_type == UnaryOpType::TYPECAST) ? DataType::UINT32 : input_tensor.get_dtype();
     bool fp32_dest_acc_en = input_tensor.get_dtype() == DataType::UINT32 or
                             input_tensor.get_dtype() == DataType::INT32;  // MT: Currently only uint32/int32 is moved to
                                                                           // DST directly, fp32 is converted to fp16b
     return operation::run(
-               EltwiseUnary{op_chain, memory_config.value_or(input_tensor.memory_config()), fp32_dest_acc_en},
+               EltwiseUnary{op_chain, memory_config.value_or(input_tensor.memory_config()), fp32_dest_acc_en, output_dtype},
                {input_tensor})
         .at(0);
 }