diff --git a/references/video_classification/train.py b/references/video_classification/train.py
index 1f363f57dad..0cd88e8022f 100644
--- a/references/video_classification/train.py
+++ b/references/video_classification/train.py
@@ -12,19 +12,13 @@
 from torch.utils.data.dataloader import default_collate
 from torchvision.datasets.samplers import DistributedSampler, UniformClipSampler, RandomClipSampler
 
-try:
-    from apex import amp
-except ImportError:
-    amp = None
-
-
 try:
     from torchvision.prototype import models as PM
 except ImportError:
     PM = None
 
 
-def train_one_epoch(model, criterion, optimizer, lr_scheduler, data_loader, device, epoch, print_freq, apex=False):
+def train_one_epoch(model, criterion, optimizer, lr_scheduler, data_loader, device, epoch, print_freq, scaler=None):
     model.train()
     metric_logger = utils.MetricLogger(delimiter="  ")
     metric_logger.add_meter("lr", utils.SmoothedValue(window_size=1, fmt="{value}"))
@@ -34,16 +28,19 @@ def train_one_epoch(model, criterion, optimizer, lr_scheduler, data_loader, devi
     for video, target in metric_logger.log_every(data_loader, print_freq, header):
         start_time = time.time()
         video, target = video.to(device), target.to(device)
-        output = model(video)
-        loss = criterion(output, target)
+        with torch.cuda.amp.autocast(enabled=scaler is not None):
+            output = model(video)
+            loss = criterion(output, target)
 
         optimizer.zero_grad()
-        if apex:
-            with amp.scale_loss(loss, optimizer) as scaled_loss:
-                scaled_loss.backward()
+
+        if scaler is not None:
+            scaler.scale(loss).backward()
+            scaler.step(optimizer)
+            scaler.update()
         else:
             loss.backward()
-        optimizer.step()
+            optimizer.step()
 
         acc1, acc5 = utils.accuracy(output, target, topk=(1, 5))
         batch_size = video.shape[0]
@@ -101,11 +98,6 @@ def collate_fn(batch):
 def main(args):
     if args.weights and PM is None:
         raise ImportError("The prototype module couldn't be found. Please install the latest torchvision nightly.")
-    if args.apex and amp is None:
-        raise RuntimeError(
-            "Failed to import apex. Please install apex from https://www.github.com/nvidia/apex "
-            "to enable mixed-precision training."
-        )
 
     if args.output_dir:
         utils.mkdir(args.output_dir)
@@ -224,9 +216,7 @@ def main(args):
 
     lr = args.lr * args.world_size
     optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=lr, momentum=args.momentum, weight_decay=args.weight_decay)
-
-    if args.apex:
-        model, optimizer = amp.initialize(model, optimizer, opt_level=args.apex_opt_level)
+    scaler = torch.cuda.amp.GradScaler() if args.amp else None
 
     # convert scheduler to be per iteration, not per epoch, for warmup that lasts
     # between different epochs
@@ -267,6 +257,8 @@ def main(args):
         optimizer.load_state_dict(checkpoint["optimizer"])
         lr_scheduler.load_state_dict(checkpoint["lr_scheduler"])
         args.start_epoch = checkpoint["epoch"] + 1
+        if args.amp:
+            scaler.load_state_dict(checkpoint["scaler"])
 
     if args.test_only:
         evaluate(model, criterion, data_loader_test, device=device)
@@ -277,9 +269,7 @@ def main(args):
     for epoch in range(args.start_epoch, args.epochs):
         if args.distributed:
             train_sampler.set_epoch(epoch)
-        train_one_epoch(
-            model, criterion, optimizer, lr_scheduler, data_loader, device, epoch, args.print_freq, args.apex
-        )
+        train_one_epoch(model, criterion, optimizer, lr_scheduler, data_loader, device, epoch, args.print_freq, scaler)
         evaluate(model, criterion, data_loader_test, device=device)
         if args.output_dir:
             checkpoint = {
@@ -289,6 +279,8 @@ def main(args):
                 "epoch": epoch,
                 "args": args,
             }
+            if args.amp:
+                checkpoint["scaler"] = scaler.state_dict()
             utils.save_on_master(checkpoint, os.path.join(args.output_dir, f"model_{epoch}.pth"))
             utils.save_on_master(checkpoint, os.path.join(args.output_dir, "checkpoint.pth"))
 
@@ -363,17 +355,6 @@ def parse_args():
         action="store_true",
     )
 
-    # Mixed precision training parameters
-    parser.add_argument("--apex", action="store_true", help="Use apex for mixed precision training")
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--apex-opt-level",
-        default="O1",
-        type=str,
-        help="For apex mixed precision training"
-        "O0 for FP32 training, O1 for mixed precision training."
-        "For further detail, see https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex/tree/master/examples/imagenet",
-    )
-
     # distributed training parameters
     parser.add_argument("--world-size", default=1, type=int, help="number of distributed processes")
     parser.add_argument("--dist-url", default="env://", type=str, help="url used to set up distributed training")
@@ -381,6 +362,9 @@ def parse_args():
     # Prototype models only
     parser.add_argument("--weights", default=None, type=str, help="the weights enum name to load")
 
+    # Mixed precision training parameters
+    parser.add_argument("--amp", action="store_true", help="Use torch.cuda.amp for mixed precision training")
+
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     return args