diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/attention.py b/src/diffusers/models/attention.py
index accddacd..55062c32 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/attention.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/attention.py
@@ -262,11 +262,24 @@ class CrossAttention(nn.Module):
         # TODO(PVP) - mask is currently never used. Remember to re-implement when used
 
         # attention, what we cannot get enough of
-        hidden_states = self._attention(query, key, value, sequence_length, dim)
+
+        if self._slice_size is None or query.shape[0] // self._slice_size == 1:
+            hidden_states = self._attention(query, key, value)
+        else:
+            hidden_states = self._sliced_attention(query, key, value, sequence_length, dim)
 
         return self.to_out(hidden_states)
 
-    def _attention(self, query, key, value, sequence_length, dim):
+    def _attention(self, query, key, value):
+        attention_scores = torch.matmul(query, key.transpose(-1, -2)) * self.scale
+        attention_probs = attention_scores.softmax(dim=-1)
+        # compute attention output
+        hidden_states = torch.matmul(attention_probs, value)
+        # reshape hidden_states
+        hidden_states = self.reshape_batch_dim_to_heads(hidden_states)
+        return hidden_states
+
+    def _sliced_attention(self, query, key, value, sequence_length, dim):
         batch_size_attention = query.shape[0]
         hidden_states = torch.zeros(
             (batch_size_attention, sequence_length, dim // self.heads), device=query.device, dtype=query.dtype