diff --git a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index 57f324a60a9..49ca524c302 100644
--- a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ set(FAISS_GPU_ARCHS "${FAISS_GPU_ARCHS} -gencode arch=compute_${ptx},code=comput
 set(CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS} --expt-extended-lambda --expt-relaxed-constexpr")
 set(CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS} -Werror=cross-execution-space-call -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Xptxas --disable-warnings")
 set(CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS} -Xcompiler -Wall,-Wno-error=sign-compare,-Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable")
+set(CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CUDA_FLAGS} -Xfatbin=-compress-all")
 
 # Option to enable line info in CUDA device compilation to allow introspection when profiling /
 # memchecking