diff --git a/tfjs-core/benchmarks/index.html b/tfjs-core/benchmarks/index.html
index 73afdccff83..24844a97b8e 100644
--- a/tfjs-core/benchmarks/index.html
+++ b/tfjs-core/benchmarks/index.html
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ <h2>TensorFlow.js Model Benchmark</h2>
 
     const state = {
       numRuns: 50,
-      benchmark: 'mobilenet_v2',
+      benchmark: 'custom_forward',
       run: (v) => {
         runBenchmark();
       },
diff --git a/tfjs-core/benchmarks/modelConfig.js b/tfjs-core/benchmarks/modelConfig.js
index d75caec96d4..4e6e26e2eeb 100644
--- a/tfjs-core/benchmarks/modelConfig.js
+++ b/tfjs-core/benchmarks/modelConfig.js
@@ -72,6 +72,21 @@ const sentences = [
 ];
 
 const benchmarks = {
+  'custom_forward': {
+    load: async () => {
+      return {};
+    },
+    predictFunc: () => {
+      // Setup code for the forward pass. Only gets called once.
+      const a = tf.tensor2d([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], [2, 3]);
+      const b = tf.tensor2d([0, 1, -3, 2, 2, 1], [3, 2]);
+
+      return () => {
+        // Forward pass.
+        return tf.matMul(a, b);
+      }
+    }
+  },
   'mobilenet_v2': {
     load: async () => {
       const url =