diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/native/cudnn/Conv_v8.cpp b/aten/src/ATen/native/cudnn/Conv_v8.cpp
index ba5c7a28cc91e2..cb07ef335e56f0 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/native/cudnn/Conv_v8.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/native/cudnn/Conv_v8.cpp
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ namespace at { namespace native {
 namespace {
 
 // TODO: remove duplicate code in Conv_v7.cpp
-constexpr size_t operator "" _TiB(unsigned long long n) {
+constexpr int64_t operator "" _TiB(unsigned long long n) {
   return size_t(n) << 40;
 }
 
@@ -323,12 +323,12 @@ auto get_generator_sources(const cudnnBackendDescriptorType_t& desc, const Tenso
   }
 }
 
-size_t get_available_workspace() {
+int64_t get_available_workspace() {
   int device;
   C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetDevice(&device));
   size_t max_block_size = 0;
   c10::cuda::CUDACachingAllocator::cacheInfo(device, &max_block_size);
-  return max_block_size;
+  return static_cast<int64_t>(max_block_size);
 }
 
 static nlohmann::json errata_json_handle;
@@ -347,10 +347,10 @@ void generate_and_filter_plans(const cudnnHandle_t handle, cudnn_frontend::Opera
     return plan_errata_exception(handle, plan.getTag());
   };
   auto plans = generator.cudnnGetPlan(handle, opGraph, initial_predicate_function);
-  size_t max_block_size = get_available_workspace();
-  size_t max_workspace_size = 0u;
+  int64_t max_block_size = get_available_workspace();
+  int64_t max_workspace_size = 0;
   std::for_each(plans.begin(), plans.end(), [&] (cudnn_frontend::ExecutionPlan& plan) {
-    size_t curr_workspace_size = plan.getWorkspaceSize();
+    int64_t curr_workspace_size = plan.getWorkspaceSize();
     if (curr_workspace_size <= max_block_size) {
       if (curr_workspace_size > max_workspace_size) {
         max_workspace_size = plan.getWorkspaceSize();
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ void generate_and_filter_plans(const cudnnHandle_t handle, cudnn_frontend::Opera
   if (remove_invalid) {
     cudnn_frontend::executionPlans_t new_valid_plans;
     for (auto &plan : valid_plans) {
-      if (static_cast<size_t>(plan.getWorkspaceSize()) <= max_workspace_size) {
+      if (plan.getWorkspaceSize() <= max_workspace_size) {
         new_valid_plans.emplace_back(std::move(plan));
       }
     }
diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/native/cudnn/Macros.h b/aten/src/ATen/native/cudnn/Macros.h
index fdc6552432818c..d38a6c6c695fb6 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/native/cudnn/Macros.h
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/native/cudnn/Macros.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // Note: The version below should not actually be 8000. Instead, it should
 // be whatever version of cuDNN that v8 API work with PyTorch correctly.
 // The version is set to 8000 today for convenience of debugging.
-#if defined(USE_EXPERIMENTAL_CUDNN_V8_API) && defined(CUDNN_VERSION) && CUDNN_VERSION >= 8000
+#if defined(USE_EXPERIMENTAL_CUDNN_V8_API) && defined(CUDNN_VERSION) && CUDNN_VERSION >= 8300
 #define HAS_CUDNN_V8() true
 #else
 #define HAS_CUDNN_V8() false
diff --git a/defs.bzl b/defs.bzl
index 00cf0fa8f06109..e8838b8aa2cbb8 100644
--- a/defs.bzl
+++ b/defs.bzl
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ default_compiler_flags = [
     "-DTH_INDEX_BASE=0",
     "-DMAGMA_V2",
     "-DNO_CUDNN_DESTROY_HANDLE",
+    "-DUSE_EXPERIMENTAL_CUDNN_V8_API",  # enable cudnn v8 api
     "-DUSE_FBGEMM",
     "-DUSE_QNNPACK",
     "-DUSE_PYTORCH_QNNPACK",