diff --git a/benchmarks/cugraph/standalone/bulk_sampling/bench_cugraph_training.py b/benchmarks/cugraph/standalone/bulk_sampling/bench_cugraph_training.py
index 60794654e4..66c34cc127 100644
--- a/benchmarks/cugraph/standalone/bulk_sampling/bench_cugraph_training.py
+++ b/benchmarks/cugraph/standalone/bulk_sampling/bench_cugraph_training.py
@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@
 def init_pytorch_worker(rank: int, use_rmm_torch_allocator: bool = False) -> None:
     import cupy
     import rmm
-    from pynvml_utils.smi import nvidia_smi
 
-    smi = nvidia_smi.getInstance()
     pool_size = 16e9  # FIXME calculate this
 
     rmm.reinitialize(