diff --git a/examples/batched/batched.cpp b/examples/batched/batched.cpp
index 2797329b4..9c9819e17 100644
--- a/examples/batched/batched.cpp
+++ b/examples/batched/batched.cpp
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     gpt_params params;
 
     if (argc == 1 || argv[1][0] == '-') {
-        printf("usage: %s MODEL_PATH [PROMPT] [PARALLEL] [LEN]\n" , argv[0]);
+        printf("usage: %s MODEL_PATH [PROMPT] [PARALLEL] [LEN] [NGL]\n" , argv[0]);
         return 1 ;
     }
 
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     // total length of the sequences including the prompt
     int n_len = 32;
 
+    // number of layers to offload to the GPU
+    int n_gpu_layers = 0;
+
     if (argc >= 2) {
         params.model = argv[1];
     }
@@ -37,6 +40,10 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         n_len = std::atoi(argv[4]);
     }
 
+    if (argc >= 6) {
+        n_gpu_layers = std::atoi(argv[5]);
+    }
+
     if (params.prompt.empty()) {
         params.prompt = "Hello my name is";
     }
@@ -49,7 +56,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     llama_model_params model_params = llama_model_default_params();
 
-    // model_params.n_gpu_layers = 99; // offload all layers to the GPU
+    model_params.n_gpu_layers = n_gpu_layers;
 
     llama_model * model = llama_load_model_from_file(params.model.c_str(), model_params);