diff --git a/torch/_inductor/utils.py b/torch/_inductor/utils.py
index ceb6468da73..188c1998693 100644
--- a/torch/_inductor/utils.py
+++ b/torch/_inductor/utils.py
@@ -1123,14 +1123,14 @@ def get_device_tflops(dtype):
         # Triton API change in https://github.com/openai/triton/pull/2293
         from triton.testing import nvsmi
 
-        cur_sm_clock = nvsmi(["clocks.current.sm"])[0]
+        sm_clock = nvsmi(["clocks.max.sm"])[0]
         if dtype in (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16):
-            return get_max_tensorcore_tflops(dtype, cur_sm_clock)
+            return get_max_tensorcore_tflops(dtype, sm_clock)
 
         if torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32:
-            return get_max_tensorcore_tflops(torch.float32, cur_sm_clock)
+            return get_max_tensorcore_tflops(torch.float32, sm_clock)
         else:
-            return get_max_simd_tflops(torch.float32, cur_sm_clock)
+            return get_max_simd_tflops(torch.float32, sm_clock)
     else:
         if dtype in (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16):
             return get_max_tensorcore_tflops(dtype)