diff --git a/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/test_lm_eval_correctness.py b/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/test_lm_eval_correctness.py
index af3226f51f..aa0b1b096b 100644
--- a/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/test_lm_eval_correctness.py
+++ b/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/test_lm_eval_correctness.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import lm_eval
 import numpy
 import yaml
 
-RTOL = 0.02
+RTOL = 0.05
 TEST_DATA_FILE = os.environ.get(
     "LM_EVAL_TEST_DATA_FILE",
     ".buildkite/lm-eval-harness/configs/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct.yaml")