diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_debug_options.h b/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_debug_options.h
index b53f48a8799..81880be5950 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_debug_options.h
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/radeonsi/si_debug_options.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-OPT_BOOL(inline_uniforms, false, "Optimize shaders by replacing uniforms with literals")
+OPT_BOOL(inline_uniforms, true, "Optimize shaders by replacing uniforms with literals")
 OPT_BOOL(aux_debug, false, "Generate ddebug_dumps for the auxiliary context")
 OPT_BOOL(sync_compile, false, "Always compile synchronously (will cause stalls)")
 OPT_BOOL(dump_shader_binary, false, "Dump shader binary as part of ddebug_dumps")