diff --git a/ci/build_windows.py b/ci/build_windows.py
index e0264675e8f2..7412a733bc90 100755
--- a/ci/build_windows.py
+++ b/ci/build_windows.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ class BuildFlavour(Enum):
         '-DUSE_BLAS=open '
         '-DUSE_LAPACK=ON '
         '-DUSE_DIST_KVSTORE=OFF '
-        '-DMXNET_CUDA_ARCH="5.2" '
+        '-DMXNET_CUDA_ARCH="7.5" '
         '-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/FS /MD /O2 /Ob2" '
         '-DUSE_MKL_IF_AVAILABLE=OFF '
         '-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release')
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ class BuildFlavour(Enum):
         '-DUSE_BLAS=open '
         '-DUSE_LAPACK=ON '
         '-DUSE_DIST_KVSTORE=OFF '
-        '-DMXNET_CUDA_ARCH="5.2" '
+        '-DMXNET_CUDA_ARCH="7.5" '
         '-DUSE_MKLDNN=ON '
         '-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/FS /MD /O2 /Ob2" '
         '-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release')