diff --git a/packages/llm/minigpt4/benchmark.py b/packages/llm/minigpt4/benchmark.py
index 63f3ddf98..ac2ca87b0 100644
--- a/packages/llm/minigpt4/benchmark.py
+++ b/packages/llm/minigpt4/benchmark.py
@@ -1,22 +1,27 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-# cli chat client (gets installed to /opt/minigpt4.cpp/minigpt4)
 import os
 import sys
 import time
+import datetime
+import resource
 import argparse
+import socket
+
 import minigpt4_library
 
 from PIL import Image
 
-parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Test loading minigpt4')
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 
 parser.add_argument('model_path', help='Path to model file')
 parser.add_argument('llm_model_path', help='Path to llm model file')
 
 parser.add_argument('-p', '--prompt', action='append', nargs='*')
 parser.add_argument('-i', '--image', default='/data/images/hoover.jpg', help="Path to the image to test")
-parser.add_argument('-r', '--runs', type=int, default=3, help="Number of inferencing runs to do (for timing)")
-
+parser.add_argument('-r', '--runs', type=int, default=2, help="Number of inferencing runs to do (for timing)")
+parser.add_argument('-w', '--warmup', type=int, default=1, help='the number of warmup iterations')
+parser.add_argument('-s', '--save', type=str, default='', help='CSV file to save benchmarking results to')
+   
 parser.add_argument('--max-new-tokens', type=int, default=64, help="Limit the length of LLM output")
 
 args = parser.parse_args()
@@ -24,31 +29,74 @@
 if not args.prompt:
     args.prompt = [
         "What does the sign in the image say?",
-        "What kind of environment is it in?"
+        "How far is the exit?",
+        "What kind of environment is it in?",
+        "Does it look like it's going to rain?",
     ]
     
 print(args)
 
+def get_max_rss():  # peak memory usage in MB (max RSS - https://stackoverflow.com/a/7669482)
+    return (resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss + resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_CHILDREN).ru_maxrss) / 1024  
+    
 minigpt4_chatbot = minigpt4_library.MiniGPT4ChatBot(args.model_path, args.llm_model_path, verbosity=minigpt4_library.Verbosity.DEBUG) # SILENT, ERR, INFO, DEBUG
 
+model_name=f"{os.path.basename(args.model_path)}+{os.path.basename(args.llm_model_path)}"
+
 print(f"-- opening {args.image}")
 image = Image.open(args.image).convert('RGB')
 
-for run in range(args.runs):
+avg_encoder=0
+avg_latency=0
+avg_tokens_sec=0
+
+for run in range(args.runs + args.warmup):
     time_begin=time.perf_counter()
     minigpt4_chatbot.upload_image(image)
     time_encoder=time.perf_counter() - time_begin
-    print(f"{os.path.basename(args.model_path)} encoder:  {time_encoder:.3f} seconds")
     
+    print(f"{model_name} encoder:  {time_encoder:.3f} seconds\n")
+    
+    if run >= args.warmup:
+        avg_encoder += time_encoder
+        
     for prompt in args.prompt:
+        print(prompt)
         num_tokens=0
         time_begin=time.perf_counter()
         for token in minigpt4_chatbot.generate(prompt, limit=args.max_new_tokens):
+            if num_tokens == 0:
+                time_first_token=time.perf_counter()
+                latency=time_first_token - time_begin
+                time_begin=time_first_token
             print(token, end='')
             sys.stdout.flush()
             num_tokens += 1
         print('\n')
         time_elapsed=time.perf_counter() - time_begin
-        print(f"{os.path.basename(args.llm_model_path)}:  {time_elapsed:.2f} seconds, {num_tokens} tokens, {num_tokens / time_elapsed:.2f} tokens/sec")
+        tokens_sec=(num_tokens-1) / time_elapsed
+        print(f"{model_name}:  {num_tokens} tokens in {time_elapsed:.2f} sec, {tokens_sec:.2f} tokens/sec, latency {latency:.2f} sec\n")
+        if run >= args.warmup:
+            avg_latency += latency
+            avg_tokens_sec += tokens_sec
+        
+    minigpt4_chatbot.reset_chat()
+    
+avg_encoder /= args.runs
+avg_latency /= args.runs * len(args.prompt)
+avg_tokens_sec /= args.runs * len(args.prompt)
+
+memory_usage=get_max_rss()
+
+print(f"AVERAGE of {args.runs} runs:")
+print(f"{model_name}:  encoder {avg_encoder:.2f} sec, {avg_tokens_sec:.2f} tokens/sec, latency {avg_latency:.2f} sec, memory {memory_usage:.2f} MB")
+
+if args.save:
+    if not os.path.isfile(args.save):  # csv header
+        with open(args.save, 'w') as file:
+            file.write(f"timestamp, hostname, api, model, encoder, tokens/sec, latency, memory\n")
+    with open(args.save, 'a') as file:
+        file.write(f"{datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S')}, {socket.gethostname()}, ")
+        file.write(f"minigpt4.cpp, {model_name}, {avg_encoder}, {avg_tokens_sec}, {avg_latency}, {memory_usage}\n")
         
-    minigpt4_chatbot.reset_chat()
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+        
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diff --git a/packages/llm/minigpt4/test.sh b/packages/llm/minigpt4/test.sh
index 153da1b78..f8de8007f 100644
--- a/packages/llm/minigpt4/test.sh
+++ b/packages/llm/minigpt4/test.sh
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ mem_capacity=$(grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo | awk '{print $2}')
 echo "memory capacity:  $mem_capacity KB"
 
 if [ $mem_capacity -le 8388608 ]; then
-	python3 benchmark.py --max-new-tokens=32 \
+	python3 benchmark.py --max-new-tokens=32 --runs=1 \
 	  $(huggingface-downloader --type=dataset maknee/minigpt4-7b-ggml/minigpt4-7B-f16.bin) \
 	  $(huggingface-downloader --type=dataset maknee/ggml-vicuna-v0-quantized/ggml-vicuna-7B-v0-q5_k.bin)
 else
-	python3 benchmark.py --max-new-tokens=32 \
+	python3 benchmark.py --max-new-tokens=32 --runs=1 \
 	  $(huggingface-downloader --type=dataset maknee/minigpt4-13b-ggml/minigpt4-13B-f16.bin) \
 	  $(huggingface-downloader --type=dataset maknee/ggml-vicuna-v0-quantized/ggml-vicuna-13B-v0-q5_k.bin)	
 fi
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