diff --git a/doc/encoders.texi b/doc/encoders.texi
index 2f5457fb26..78b3be9605 100644
--- a/doc/encoders.texi
+++ b/doc/encoders.texi
@@ -3268,14 +3268,6 @@ Set the number of tiles to encode the input video with, as rows x columns.
 Larger numbers allow greater parallelism in both encoding and decoding, but
 may decrease coding efficiency.
 
-@item tile_rows
-Selects how many rows of tiles to encode with. For example, 4 tile rows would
-be requested by setting the tile_rows option to 4.
-
-@item tile_cols
-Selects how many columns of tiles to encode with. For example, 5 tile columns
-would be requested by setting the tile_cols option to 5.
-
 @end table
 
 @item mjpeg_vaapi
diff --git a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode_h265.c b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode_h265.c
index f6008778df..511218f659 100644
--- a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode_h265.c
+++ b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode_h265.c
@@ -1291,10 +1291,6 @@ static const AVOption vaapi_encode_h265_options[] = {
 
     { "tiles", "Tile rows x cols",
       OFFSET(trows), AV_OPT_TYPE_IMAGE_SIZE, { .str = NULL }, 0, 0, FLAGS },
-    { "tile_rows", "Number of rows for tile encoding",
-      OFFSET(trows), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, { .i64 = 0 }, 0, INT_MAX, FLAGS },
-    { "tile_cols", "Number of cols for tile encoding",
-      OFFSET(tcols), AV_OPT_TYPE_INT, { .i64 = 0 }, 0, INT_MAX, FLAGS },
 
     { NULL },
 };