diff --git a/hls4ml/templates/vivado/nnet_utils/nnet_conv2d_stream.h b/hls4ml/templates/vivado/nnet_utils/nnet_conv2d_stream.h
index 8f365f11f3..1822025cd4 100644
--- a/hls4ml/templates/vivado/nnet_utils/nnet_conv2d_stream.h
+++ b/hls4ml/templates/vivado/nnet_utils/nnet_conv2d_stream.h
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ void conv_2d_cl(
 {
     assert(CONFIG_T::pad_top == 0 && CONFIG_T::pad_bottom == 0 && CONFIG_T::pad_left == 0 && CONFIG_T::pad_right == 0);
     assert(CONFIG_T::filt_height == CONFIG_T::filt_width);
-    assert(CONFIG_T::stride_height <= CONFIG_T::filt_height && CONFIG_T::stride_width <= CONFIG_T::filt_width);
 
     hls::stream<typename data_T::value_type> data_window[CONFIG_T::filt_height * CONFIG_T::filt_width * CONFIG_T::n_chan];
     const int win_depth = CONFIG_T::filt_height * CONFIG_T::out_width;