diff --git a/include/alpaka/mem/buf/BufUniformCudaHipRt.hpp b/include/alpaka/mem/buf/BufUniformCudaHipRt.hpp
index 79340323ff01..d0083ed284c4 100644
--- a/include/alpaka/mem/buf/BufUniformCudaHipRt.hpp
+++ b/include/alpaka/mem/buf/BufUniformCudaHipRt.hpp
@@ -280,8 +280,8 @@ namespace alpaka
 #    endif
 #    if defined(ALPAKA_ACC_GPU_HIP_ENABLED)
             static_assert(
-                !std::is_same_v<TApi, ApiHipRt>,
-                "HIP devices do not support stream-ordered memory buffers.");
+                std::is_same_v<TApi, ApiHipRt> && TApi::version >= BOOST_VERSION_NUMBER(5, 2, 0),
+                "Support for stream-ordered memory buffers requires HIP/ROCm 5.2 or higher.");
 #    endif
             static_assert(
                 TDim::value <= 1,