diff --git a/src/tbb/misc_ex.cpp b/src/tbb/misc_ex.cpp
index 13b7b04fb1..3eaf33fca1 100644
--- a/src/tbb/misc_ex.cpp
+++ b/src/tbb/misc_ex.cpp
@@ -297,11 +297,21 @@ static void initialize_hardware_concurrency_info () {
         if ( pam & m )
             ++nproc;
     }
-    __TBB_ASSERT( nproc <= (int)si.dwNumberOfProcessors, nullptr);
+    int number_of_processors = (int)si.dwNumberOfProcessors;
+    if (nproc > number_of_processors && TBB_GetThreadGroupAffinity) {
+        // Sometimes on systems with multiple processor groups GetNativeSystemInfo
+        // reports mask and processor count from the parent process
+        TBB_GROUP_AFFINITY ga;
+        if (TBB_GetThreadGroupAffinity( GetCurrentThread(), &ga)) {
+            number_of_processors = (int)TBB_GetActiveProcessorCount(ga.Group);
+        }
+    }
+
+    __TBB_ASSERT( nproc <= number_of_processors, nullptr);
     // By default setting up a number of processors for one processor group
     theProcessorGroups[0].numProcs = theProcessorGroups[0].numProcsRunningTotal = nproc;
     // Setting up processor groups in case the process does not restrict affinity mask and more than one processor group is present
-    if ( nproc == (int)si.dwNumberOfProcessors && TBB_GetActiveProcessorCount ) {
+    if ( nproc == number_of_processors && TBB_GetActiveProcessorCount ) {
         // The process does not have restricting affinity mask and multiple processor groups are possible
         ProcessorGroupInfo::NumGroups = (int)TBB_GetActiveProcessorGroupCount();
         __TBB_ASSERT( ProcessorGroupInfo::NumGroups <= MaxProcessorGroups, nullptr);