diff --git a/cmake/Dependencies.cmake b/cmake/Dependencies.cmake
index 09b7286a..23aa4108 100644
--- a/cmake/Dependencies.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Dependencies.cmake
@@ -94,14 +94,6 @@ if(BUILD_BENCHMARK)
       message(FATAL_ERROR "DownloadProject.cmake doesn't support multi-configuration generators.")
     endif()
     set(GOOGLEBENCHMARK_ROOT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/deps/googlebenchmark CACHE PATH "")
-    if(NOT (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "GNU"))
-    # hip-clang cannot compile googlebenchmark for some reason
-      if(WIN32)
-        set(COMPILER_OVERRIDE "-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=cl")
-      else()
-        set(COMPILER_OVERRIDE "-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++")
-      endif()
-    endif()
 
     download_project(
       PROJ           googlebenchmark