diff --git a/faiss/gpu/CMakeLists.txt b/faiss/gpu/CMakeLists.txt
index 232590b1ef..17354cb2fc 100644
--- a/faiss/gpu/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/faiss/gpu/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -178,3 +178,5 @@ endforeach()
 find_package(CUDAToolkit REQUIRED)
 target_link_libraries(faiss PRIVATE CUDA::cudart CUDA::cublas)
 target_link_libraries(faiss_avx2 PRIVATE CUDA::cudart CUDA::cublas)
+target_compile_options(faiss PRIVATE $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CUDA>:-Xfatbin=-compress-all>)
+target_compile_options(faiss_avx2 PRIVATE $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CUDA>:-Xfatbin=-compress-all>)