diff --git a/Makefile.power b/Makefile.power
index 3fa6d6faf8..2309c9d840 100644
--- a/Makefile.power
+++ b/Makefile.power
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ ifeq ($(CORE), POWER10)
 ifneq ($(C_COMPILER), PGI)
 ifeq ($(C_COMPILER), GCC)
 ifeq ($(GCCVERSIONGTEQ10), 1)
-CCOMMON_OPT += -Ofast -mcpu=power10 -mtune=power10 -mvsx -fno-fast-math
+CCOMMON_OPT += -O3 -mcpu=power10 -mtune=power10 -mvsx -fno-fast-math
 else ifneq ($(GCCVERSIONGT4), 1)
 $(warning your compiler is too old to fully support POWER9, getting a newer version of gcc is recommended)
-CCOMMON_OPT += -Ofast -mcpu=power8 -mtune=power8 -mvsx -fno-fast-math
+CCOMMON_OPT += -O3 -mcpu=power8 -mtune=power8 -mvsx -fno-fast-math
 else
 $(warning your compiler is too old to fully support POWER10, getting a newer version of gcc is recommended)
-CCOMMON_OPT += -Ofast -mcpu=power9 -mtune=power9 -mvsx -fno-fast-math
+CCOMMON_OPT += -O3 -mcpu=power9 -mtune=power9 -mvsx -fno-fast-math
 endif
 else
-CCOMMON_OPT += -Ofast -mcpu=power10 -mtune=power10 -mvsx -fno-fast-math
+CCOMMON_OPT += -O3 -mcpu=power10 -mtune=power10 -mvsx -fno-fast-math
 endif
 ifeq ($(F_COMPILER), IBM)
 FCOMMON_OPT += -O2 -qrecur -qnosave -qarch=pwr10 -qtune=pwr10 -qfloat=nomaf -qzerosize
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ endif
 
 ifeq ($(CORE), POWER9)
 ifneq ($(C_COMPILER), PGI)
-CCOMMON_OPT += -Ofast -mvsx -fno-fast-math
+CCOMMON_OPT += -O3 -mvsx -fno-fast-math
 ifeq ($(C_COMPILER), GCC)
 ifneq ($(GCCVERSIONGT4), 1)
 $(warning your compiler is too old to fully support POWER9, getting a newer version of gcc is recommended)
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ endif
 
 ifeq ($(CORE), POWER8)
 ifneq ($(C_COMPILER), PGI)
-CCOMMON_OPT += -Ofast -mcpu=power8 -mtune=power8 -mvsx  -fno-fast-math
+CCOMMON_OPT += -O3 -mcpu=power8 -mtune=power8 -mvsx  -fno-fast-math
 else
 CCOMMON_OPT += -fast -Mvect=simd -Mcache_align
 endif