diff --git a/studio/backend/utils/hardware/hardware.py b/studio/backend/utils/hardware/hardware.py
index 1cb985539a..487ab1e850 100644
--- a/studio/backend/utils/hardware/hardware.py
+++ b/studio/backend/utils/hardware/hardware.py
@@ -599,7 +599,10 @@ def _get_parent_visible_gpu_spec() -> Dict[str, Any]:
     # Use explicit None checks (not `or`) so empty string "" is honoured
     # as "no visible GPUs" rather than falling through to CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES.
     cuda_visible = None
-    if IS_ROCM:
+    _is_rocm_spec = IS_ROCM or (
+        "HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES" in os.environ or "ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES" in os.environ
+    )
+    if _is_rocm_spec:
         hip_vis = os.environ.get("HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES")
         rocr_vis = os.environ.get("ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES")
         if hip_vis is not None: