diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/rocblas/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/rocblas/default.nix
index a27e93c4c35..11385ae6403 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/rocblas/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/rocblas/default.nix
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     repo = finalAttrs.src.repo;
   };
 
+  requiredSystemFeatures = [ "big-parallel" ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "BLAS implementation for ROCm platform";
     homepage = "https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/rocBLAS";