diff --git a/perf_test/blas/blas2/CMakeLists.txt b/perf_test/blas/blas2/CMakeLists.txt
index 9c2aa424d1..dc106224f0 100644
--- a/perf_test/blas/blas2/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/perf_test/blas/blas2/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,14 @@ KOKKOSKERNELS_ADD_EXECUTABLE(
 
 IF(KokkosKernels_ENABLE_BENCHMARK)
     KOKKOSKERNELS_ADD_BENCHMARK(
-        Blas2_Benchmark
+        Blas2_gemv_Benchmark
         SOURCES KokkosBlas2_gemv_perf_test_benchmark.cpp
     )
 ENDIF()
+
+IF(KokkosKernels_ENABLE_BENCHMARK)
+    KOKKOSKERNELS_ADD_BENCHMARK(
+        Blas2_ger_Benchmark
+        SOURCES KokkosBlas2_ger_perf_test_benchmark.cpp
+    )
+ENDIF()
diff --git a/perf_test/blas/blas2/KokkosBlas2_ger_perf_test_benchmark.cpp b/perf_test/blas/blas2/KokkosBlas2_ger_perf_test_benchmark.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..25c08a87b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perf_test/blas/blas2/KokkosBlas2_ger_perf_test_benchmark.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,347 @@
+//@HEADER
+// ************************************************************************
+//
+//                        Kokkos v. 4.0
+//       Copyright (2022) National Technology & Engineering
+//               Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS).
+//
+// Under the terms of Contract DE-NA0003525 with NTESS,
+// the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software.
+//
+// Part of Kokkos, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://kokkos.org/LICENSE for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//@HEADER
+
+#include <Kokkos_Core.hpp>
+#include <Kokkos_Random.hpp>
+
+#include "KokkosKernels_helpers.hpp"
+#include "KokkosBlas2_ger.hpp"
+#include <typeinfo>
+
+#include "KokkosKernels_TestUtils.hpp"
+#include "KokkosKernels_perf_test_utilities.hpp"
+
+#include <Benchmark_Context.hpp>
+#include <benchmark/benchmark.h>
+
+struct blas2_ger_params : public perf_test::CommonInputParams {
+  int verbosity          = 0;
+  int m                  = 5000;
+  int n                  = 5000;
+  bool layoutLeft        = true;
+  std::string scalarType = "double";
+  std::string yMode      = "transpose";
+
+  static blas2_ger_params get_params(int& argc, char** argv) {
+    blas2_ger_params params;
+    perf_test::parse_common_options(argc, argv, params);
+
+    for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
+      if (perf_test::check_arg_int(i, argc, argv, "--verbosity",
+                                   params.verbosity)) {
+        ++i;
+      } else if (perf_test::check_arg_int(i, argc, argv, "--m", params.m)) {
+        ++i;
+      } else if (perf_test::check_arg_int(i, argc, argv, "--n", params.n)) {
+        ++i;
+      } else if (std::string layout;
+                 perf_test::check_arg_str(i, argc, argv, "--layout", layout)) {
+        if (0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(layout, "left"))
+          params.layoutLeft = true;
+        else if (0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(layout, "right"))
+          params.layoutLeft = false;
+        else {
+          std::cerr << "Invalid '--layout': must be 'left' or 'right'.\n";
+          exit(1);
+        }
+        ++i;
+      } else if (std::string scalarType; perf_test::check_arg_str(
+                     i, argc, argv, "--scalarType", scalarType)) {
+        if ((0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(scalarType, "int32")) ||
+            (0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(scalarType, "int64")) ||
+            (0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(scalarType, "float")) ||
+            (0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(scalarType, "double")) ||
+            (0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(scalarType, "complex_float")) ||
+            (0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(scalarType, "complex_double"))) {
+          params.scalarType = scalarType;
+        } else {
+          std::cerr << "Invalid '--scalarType': must be 'int32' or 'int64' or "
+                       "'float' or 'double' or 'complex_float' or "
+                       "'complex_double'.\n";
+          exit(1);
+        }
+        ++i;
+      } else if (std::string yMode;
+                 perf_test::check_arg_str(i, argc, argv, "--yMode", yMode)) {
+        if ((0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(yMode, "transpose")) ||
+            (0 == Test::string_compare_no_case(yMode, "Hermitian"))) {
+          params.yMode = yMode;
+        } else {
+          std::cerr
+              << "Invalid '--yMode': must be 'transpose' or 'Hermitian'.\n";
+          exit(1);
+        }
+        ++i;
+      } else {
+        std::cerr << "Unrecognized command line argument #" << i << ": "
+                  << argv[i] << std::endl;
+        print_options();
+        exit(1);
+      }
+    }
+    return params;
+  }
+
+  static void print_options() {
+    std::cerr << "Options\n" << std::endl;
+    std::cerr << perf_test::list_common_options();
+
+    std::cerr << "\t[Optional] --m :: number of rows to generate (default 5000)"
+              << std::endl;
+    std::cerr << "\t[Optional] --n :: number of cols to generate (default 5000)"
+              << std::endl;
+    std::cerr << "\t[Optional] --layout :: matrix layout ('left' or 'right', "
+                 "default 'left')"
+              << std::endl;
+    std::cerr
+        << "\t[Optional] --scalarType :: scalar type ('int32' or 'int64'"
+           " or 'float' or 'double' or 'complex_float' or 'complex_double'"
+           ", default 'double')"
+        << std::endl;
+    std::cerr << "\t[Optional] --yMode :: y mode ('transpose' or 'Hermitian'"
+                 ", default 'transpose')"
+              << std::endl;
+  }
+};
+
+template <typename tScalar, typename tLayout, typename tExecSpace>
+static void KokkosBlas2_GER(benchmark::State& state) {
+  const auto verbosity    = state.range(0);
+  const auto m            = state.range(1);
+  const auto n            = state.range(2);
+  const auto yIsTranspose = state.range(3);
+  tScalar a(Kokkos::ArithTraits<tScalar>::zero());
+
+  if (verbosity > 0) {
+    std::cout << "Entering KokkosBlas2_GER()"
+              << ": m = " << m << ", n = " << n
+              << ", yIsTranspose = " << yIsTranspose
+              << ", tScalar = " << Kokkos::ArithTraits<tScalar>::name()
+              << ", tLayout = " << typeid(tLayout).name() << std::endl;
+  }
+
+  using MemSpace = typename tExecSpace::memory_space;
+  using Device   = Kokkos::Device<tExecSpace, MemSpace>;
+
+  Kokkos::View<tScalar**, tLayout, Device> A(
+      Kokkos::view_alloc(Kokkos::WithoutInitializing, "A"), m, n);
+  Kokkos::View<tScalar*, Device> x(
+      Kokkos::view_alloc(Kokkos::WithoutInitializing, "x"), m);
+  Kokkos::View<tScalar*, Device> y(
+      Kokkos::view_alloc(Kokkos::WithoutInitializing, "y"), n);
+
+  Kokkos::Random_XorShift64_Pool<tExecSpace> pool(123);
+
+  char yMode('t');
+  if (!yIsTranspose) yMode = 'H';
+
+  tScalar rangeValue(Kokkos::ArithTraits<tScalar>::zero());
+  if constexpr (Kokkos::ArithTraits<tScalar>::isOrdinal) {
+    rangeValue = 10;
+    a          = 3;
+  } else if constexpr (Kokkos::ArithTraits<tScalar>::is_complex) {
+    rangeValue.real() = 10.;
+    rangeValue.imag() = 10.;
+    a                 = tScalar(2.5, 3.6);
+  } else {
+    rangeValue = 10.;
+    a          = 2.5;
+  }
+
+  // Fill 'A', 'x', and 'y' with samples from an uniform random variable with
+  // range [1,rangeValue)
+  Kokkos::fill_random(A, pool, rangeValue);
+  Kokkos::fill_random(x, pool, rangeValue);
+  Kokkos::fill_random(y, pool, rangeValue);
+
+  if (verbosity > 0) {
+    std::cout << "In KokkosBlas2_GER()"
+              << ": yMode = " << yMode << ", a = " << a
+              << ", rangeValue = " << rangeValue << std::endl;
+  }
+
+  // Do a warm-up run
+  KokkosBlas::ger(&yMode, a, x, y, A);
+  Kokkos::fence();
+  double total_time = 0.0;
+
+  for (auto _ : state) {
+    // Start timing
+    Kokkos::Timer timer;
+    KokkosBlas::ger(&yMode, a, x, y, A);
+    tExecSpace().fence();
+
+    double time = timer.seconds();
+    total_time += time;
+    state.SetIterationTime(time);
+  }
+
+  state.counters[tExecSpace::name()] = 1;
+  state.counters["Avg GER time (s):"] =
+      benchmark::Counter(total_time, benchmark::Counter::kAvgIterations);
+  size_t flopsPerRun                = (size_t)3 * m * n;
+  state.counters["Avg GER FLOP/s:"] = benchmark::Counter(
+      flopsPerRun, benchmark::Counter::kIsIterationInvariantRate);
+
+  if (verbosity > 0) {
+    std::cout << "Leaving KokkosBlas2_GER()" << std::endl;
+  }
+}
+
+template <typename tExecSpace>
+void run(const blas2_ger_params& params) {
+  const auto name      = "KokkosBlas2_GER";
+  const auto arg_names = std::vector<std::string>{
+      "verbosity", "m", "n", "yMode",
+      params.layoutLeft ? "LayoutLeft" : "LayoutRight"};
+  const auto args = std::vector<int64_t>{params.verbosity, params.m, params.n,
+                                         (params.yMode == "transpose"), 1};
+
+  if (params.layoutLeft) {
+    if (params.scalarType == "int32") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name, KokkosBlas2_GER<std::int32_t, Kokkos::LayoutLeft, tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else if (params.scalarType == "int64") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name, KokkosBlas2_GER<std::int64_t, Kokkos::LayoutLeft, tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else if (params.scalarType == "float") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name, KokkosBlas2_GER<float, Kokkos::LayoutLeft, tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else if (params.scalarType == "double") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name, KokkosBlas2_GER<double, Kokkos::LayoutLeft, tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else if (params.scalarType == "complex_float") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name,
+          KokkosBlas2_GER<Kokkos::complex<float>, Kokkos::LayoutLeft,
+                          tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name,
+          KokkosBlas2_GER<Kokkos::complex<double>, Kokkos::LayoutLeft,
+                          tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    }
+  } else {
+    if (params.scalarType == "int32") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name, KokkosBlas2_GER<std::int32_t, Kokkos::LayoutRight, tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else if (params.scalarType == "int64") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name, KokkosBlas2_GER<std::int64_t, Kokkos::LayoutRight, tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else if (params.scalarType == "float") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name, KokkosBlas2_GER<float, Kokkos::LayoutRight, tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else if (params.scalarType == "double") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name, KokkosBlas2_GER<double, Kokkos::LayoutRight, tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else if (params.scalarType == "complex_float") {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name,
+          KokkosBlas2_GER<Kokkos::complex<float>, Kokkos::LayoutRight,
+                          tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    } else {
+      KokkosKernelsBenchmark::register_benchmark(
+          name,
+          KokkosBlas2_GER<Kokkos::complex<double>, Kokkos::LayoutRight,
+                          tExecSpace>,
+          arg_names, args, params.repeat);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv) {
+  Kokkos::initialize(argc, argv);
+  benchmark::Initialize(&argc, argv);
+  benchmark::SetDefaultTimeUnit(benchmark::kSecond);
+  KokkosKernelsBenchmark::add_benchmark_context(true);
+
+  const auto params = blas2_ger_params::get_params(argc, argv);
+
+  // std::cout << "In main(): params.repeat = " << params.repeat << std::endl;
+
+  if (params.use_threads) {
+#if defined(KOKKOS_ENABLE_THREADS)
+    run<Kokkos::Threads>(params);
+#else
+    std::cout << "ERROR: PThreads requested, but not available.\n";
+    return 1;
+#endif
+  }
+
+  if (params.use_openmp) {
+#if defined(KOKKOS_ENABLE_OPENMP)
+    run<Kokkos::OpenMP>(params);
+#else
+    std::cout << "ERROR: OpenMP requested, but not available.\n";
+    return 1;
+#endif
+  }
+
+  if (params.use_cuda) {
+#if defined(KOKKOS_ENABLE_CUDA)
+    run<Kokkos::Cuda>(params);
+#else
+    std::cout << "ERROR: CUDA requested, but not available.\n";
+    return 1;
+#endif
+  }
+
+  if (params.use_hip) {
+#if defined(KOKKOS_ENABLE_HIP)
+    run<Kokkos::HIP>(params);
+#else
+    std::cout << "ERROR: HIP requested, but not available.\n";
+    return 1;
+#endif
+  }
+
+  if (params.use_sycl) {
+#if defined(KOKKOS_ENABLE_SYCL)
+    run<Kokkos::Experimental::SYCL>(params);
+#else
+    std::cout << "ERROR: SYCL requested, but not available.\n";
+    return 1;
+#endif
+  }
+
+  // use serial if no backend is specified
+  if (!params.use_cuda && !params.use_hip && !params.use_openmp &&
+      !params.use_sycl && !params.use_threads) {
+#if defined(KOKKOS_ENABLE_SERIAL)
+    run<Kokkos::Serial>(params);
+#else
+    std::cout << "ERROR: Serial device requested, but not available.\n";
+    return 1;
+#endif
+  }
+
+  benchmark::RunSpecifiedBenchmarks();
+
+  benchmark::Shutdown();
+  Kokkos::finalize();
+  return 0;
+}