diff --git a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_amd.py b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_amd.py
index ff0a94b00f..513dbf8e56 100644
--- a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_amd.py
+++ b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_amd.py
@@ -893,8 +893,8 @@ class AMDDevice(HCQCompiled):
     max_copy_size = 0x40000000 if self.dev_iface.ip_versions[am.SDMA0_HWIP][0] >= 5 else 0x400000
     self.sdma_queue = self.create_queue(kfd.KFD_IOC_QUEUE_TYPE_SDMA, 0x200 if self.is_usb() else 0x800000)
 
-    super().__init__(device, AMDAllocator(self), AMDLLVMRenderer(self.arch) if getenv("AMD_LLVM", 0) else AMDRenderer(self.arch),
-                     AMDLLVMCompiler(self.arch) if getenv("AMD_LLVM", 0) else HIPCompiler(self.arch), functools.partial(AMDProgram, self),
+    super().__init__(device, AMDAllocator(self), AMDLLVMRenderer(self.arch) if getenv("AMD_LLVM", 1) else AMDRenderer(self.arch),
+                     AMDLLVMCompiler(self.arch) if getenv("AMD_LLVM", 1) else HIPCompiler(self.arch), functools.partial(AMDProgram, self),
                      AMDSignal, functools.partial(AMDComputeQueue, self), functools.partial(AMDCopyQueue, self, max_copy_size=max_copy_size),
                      kernargs_size=(8 << 10) if self.is_usb() else (16 << 20), sigalloc_size=0x100 if self.is_usb() else 0x1000)