diff --git a/Manifest.toml b/Manifest.toml
index 006948fe5d..5b6529181e 100644
--- a/Manifest.toml
+++ b/Manifest.toml
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ version = "6.2.2"
 
 [[GPUCompiler]]
 deps = ["DataStructures", "ExprTools", "InteractiveUtils", "LLVM", "Libdl", "Logging", "Scratch", "Serialization", "TimerOutputs", "UUIDs"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "a5a239b8c688f59872eb689edd75395e97cc6641"
+git-tree-sha1 = "7f13030524614d90c876332c980fd1edef2331e8"
 uuid = "61eb1bfa-7361-4325-ad38-22787b887f55"
-version = "0.11.2"
+version = "0.11.3"
 
 [[InteractiveUtils]]
 deps = ["Markdown"]
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index b19a8b5caa..e680b8ac78 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ CEnum = "0.2, 0.3, 0.4"
 DataStructures = "0.17, 0.18"
 ExprTools = "0.1"
 GPUArrays = "6.1.0"
-GPUCompiler = "0.11.1"
+GPUCompiler = "0.11.3"
 LLVM = "3"
 MacroTools = "0.5"
 Memoize = "0.4"
diff --git a/test/device/intrinsics.jl b/test/device/intrinsics.jl
index 2e0265b38f..e5cf244dff 100644
--- a/test/device/intrinsics.jl
+++ b/test/device/intrinsics.jl
@@ -81,6 +81,21 @@ end
             @test testf(a->op.(a, T(2)), T[-1])
         end
     end
+
+    @testset "rsqrt" begin
+        # GPUCompiler.jl#173: a CUDA-only device function fails to validate
+        function kernel(a)
+            a[] = CUDA.rsqrt(a[])
+            return
+        end
+
+        # make sure this test uses an actual device function
+        @test_throws ErrorException kernel(ones(1))
+
+        a = CuArray{Float32}([4])
+        @cuda kernel(a)
+        @test Array(a) == [0.5]
+    end
 end