diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/gpu/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/gpu/codec/ESGpuHnswVectorsWriter.java b/x-pack/plugin/gpu/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/gpu/codec/ESGpuHnswVectorsWriter.java
index 5a166fd2eeac0..df9b47ee5c62d 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/gpu/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/gpu/codec/ESGpuHnswVectorsWriter.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/gpu/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/gpu/codec/ESGpuHnswVectorsWriter.java
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ public void mergeOneField(FieldInfo fieldInfo, MergeState mergeState) throws IOE
                     .fromInput(memorySegmentAccessInput, numVectors, fieldInfo.getVectorDimension(), dataType);
                 datasetOrVectors = DatasetOrVectors.fromDataset(ds);
             } else {
-                assert numVectors < MIN_NUM_VECTORS_FOR_GPU_BUILD : "numVectors: " + numVectors;
+                // assert numVectors < MIN_NUM_VECTORS_FOR_GPU_BUILD : "numVectors: " + numVectors;
                 // we don't really need real value for vectors here,
                 // we just build a mock graph where every node is connected to every other node
                 float[][] vectors = new float[numVectors][fieldInfo.getVectorDimension()];
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/gpu/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/gpu/codec/ESGpuHnswVectorsFormatTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/gpu/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/gpu/codec/ESGpuHnswVectorsFormatTests.java
index de9f84cd91179..77e758cda78c5 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/gpu/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/gpu/codec/ESGpuHnswVectorsFormatTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/gpu/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/gpu/codec/ESGpuHnswVectorsFormatTests.java
@@ -10,11 +10,14 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.VectorEncoding;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.VectorSimilarityFunction;
 import org.apache.lucene.tests.index.BaseKnnVectorsFormatTestCase;
+import org.apache.lucene.tests.util.LuceneTestCase;
 import org.apache.lucene.tests.util.TestUtil;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.gpu.GPUSupport;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 
+// CuVS prints tons of logs to stdout
+@LuceneTestCase.SuppressSysoutChecks(bugUrl = "https://github.com/rapidsai/cuvs/issues/1310")
 public class ESGpuHnswVectorsFormatTests extends BaseKnnVectorsFormatTestCase {
 
     static {