diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 3e85a90166a07784ae6e04f17f24519527475f50..4b0682c4fe991a5656e02d6a1845f7d73f61d6ff 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ include(simd)
 
 ################################ Configurations #######################################
 option(WITH_GPU         "Compile PaddlePaddle with NVIDIA GPU"          ${CUDA_FOUND})
-option(WITH_AVX         "Compile PaddlePaddle with AVX intrinsics"      OFF)
+option(WITH_AVX         "Compile PaddlePaddle with AVX intrinsics"      ${AVX_FOUND})
 option(WITH_DSO         "Compile PaddlePaddle with dynamic linked CUDA" ON)
 option(WITH_TESTING     "Compile PaddlePaddle with unit testing"        ON)
 option(WITH_SWIG_PY     "Compile PaddlePaddle with inference api"       ON)