diff --git a/test/test_zero1.py b/test/test_zero1.py
index 17c46617973..7fec8286f12 100644
--- a/test/test_zero1.py
+++ b/test/test_zero1.py
@@ -10,10 +10,27 @@
 import unittest
 
 
+def _get_partial_states(s):
+  dp_size = xr.global_device_count()
+  dp_rank = xr.global_ordinal()
+
+  def convert_fn(tensors):
+    torch_xla._XLAC._xla_sync_multi(
+        tensors, devices=[], wait=True, sync_xla_data=True)
+    ret = []
+    for t in tensors:
+      ret.append(t.chunk(dp_size)[dp_rank])
+    return ret
+
+  def select_fn(v):
+    return type(v) == torch.Tensor and xm.is_xla_tensor(v)
+
+  return xm.ToXlaTensorArena(convert_fn, select_fn).transform(s)
+
+
 class XlaZeRO1Test(TestCase):
 
   @unittest.skipIf(xr.device_type() == 'TPU', "Crash on TPU")
-  @unittest.skipIf(xr.device_type() == 'CUDA', "Crash on CUDA")
   def test_zero1(self):
     device = xm.xla_device()
 
@@ -34,9 +51,11 @@ def test_zero1(self):
 
     opt1.step()
     opt2.step()
+
+    xm.mark_step()
     s1 = opt1.state_dict()
     s2 = opt2.state_dict()
-    self.assertEqual(s1['state'], s2['base_state'])
+    self.assertEqual(_get_partial_states(s1['state']), s2['base_state'])
 
     # deepcopy s1 to load later because pytorch optimizers do not guarantee the input
     # state_dict will not be modified. on the other hand, s2 has this guarantee.
@@ -44,16 +63,20 @@ def test_zero1(self):
 
     opt1.load_state_dict(s1)
     opt2.load_state_dict(s2)
-    self.assertEqual(opt1.state_dict()['state'],
-                     opt2.state_dict()['base_state'])
+    self.assertEqual(
+        _get_partial_states(opt1.state_dict()['state']),
+        opt2.state_dict()['base_state'])
 
     # step still runnable
     opt1.step()
     opt2.step()
+
+    xm.mark_step()
     opt1.load_state_dict(s1_clone)
     opt2.load_state_dict(s2)
-    self.assertEqual(opt1.state_dict()['state'],
-                     opt2.state_dict()['base_state'])
+    self.assertEqual(
+        _get_partial_states(opt1.state_dict()['state']),
+        opt2.state_dict()['base_state'])
 
     # step still runnable
     opt1.step()
diff --git a/torch_xla/distributed/zero_redundancy_optimizer.py b/torch_xla/distributed/zero_redundancy_optimizer.py
index 2299714271a..00e626f7d97 100644
--- a/torch_xla/distributed/zero_redundancy_optimizer.py
+++ b/torch_xla/distributed/zero_redundancy_optimizer.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 import torch_xla
 import torch_xla.core.xla_model as xm
+import torch_xla.runtime as xr
 
 
 class ZeroRedundancyOptimizer(Optimizer):
@@ -89,8 +90,8 @@ def __init__(
 
     super().__init__(params, defaults)
 
-    self.global_world_size = xm.xrt_world_size()
-    self.global_rank = xm.get_ordinal()
+    self.global_world_size = xr.global_device_count()
+    self.global_rank = xr.global_ordinal()
     self._sharding_groups = [list(range(self.global_world_size))
                             ] if sharding_groups is None else sharding_groups
     self._grad_norm_groups = grad_norm_groups