diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7760befc7a..1c6f07555a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Make single GPU benchmarking 5x more efficient by [mzweilin](https://github.com/mzweilin) in https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/anomalib/pull/2390
+
 ### New Contributors
 
 **Full Changelog**:
diff --git a/src/anomalib/pipelines/benchmark/pipeline.py b/src/anomalib/pipelines/benchmark/pipeline.py
index 730b3ecccc..f68ee5e2a1 100644
--- a/src/anomalib/pipelines/benchmark/pipeline.py
+++ b/src/anomalib/pipelines/benchmark/pipeline.py
@@ -20,11 +20,12 @@ def _setup_runners(args: dict) -> list[Runner]:
         accelerators = args["accelerator"] if isinstance(args["accelerator"], list) else [args["accelerator"]]
         runners: list[Runner] = []
         for accelerator in accelerators:
-            if accelerator == "cpu":
-                runners.append(SerialRunner(BenchmarkJobGenerator("cpu")))
-            elif accelerator == "cuda":
-                runners.append(ParallelRunner(BenchmarkJobGenerator("cuda"), n_jobs=torch.cuda.device_count()))
-            else:
+            if accelerator not in {"cpu", "cuda"}:
                 msg = f"Unsupported accelerator: {accelerator}"
                 raise ValueError(msg)
+            device_count = torch.cuda.device_count()
+            if device_count <= 1:
+                runners.append(SerialRunner(BenchmarkJobGenerator(accelerator)))
+            else:
+                runners.append(ParallelRunner(BenchmarkJobGenerator(accelerator), n_jobs=device_count))
         return runners
diff --git a/src/anomalib/utils/logging.py b/src/anomalib/utils/logging.py
index 21f7994fbf..d73ef440c4 100644
--- a/src/anomalib/utils/logging.py
+++ b/src/anomalib/utils/logging.py
@@ -74,10 +74,8 @@ def redirect_logs(log_file: str) -> None:
     """
     Path(log_file).parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
     logger_file_handler = logging.FileHandler(log_file)
-    root_logger = logging.getLogger()
-    root_logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
     format_string = "%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s"
-    logging.basicConfig(format=format_string, level=logging.DEBUG, handlers=[logger_file_handler])
+    logging.basicConfig(format=format_string, handlers=[logger_file_handler])
     logging.captureWarnings(capture=True)
     # remove other handlers from all loggers
     loggers = [logging.getLogger(name) for name in logging.root.manager.loggerDict]