diff --git a/kmath-torch/ctorch/src/ctorch.cc b/kmath-torch/ctorch/src/ctorch.cc
index dec64c354..f5d1ce6ee 100644
--- a/kmath-torch/ctorch/src/ctorch.cc
+++ b/kmath-torch/ctorch/src/ctorch.cc
@@ -163,6 +163,5 @@ TorchTensorHandle matmul(TorchTensorHandle lhs, TorchTensorHandle rhs)
 
 void matmul_assign(TorchTensorHandle lhs, TorchTensorHandle rhs)
 {
-  auto lhs_tensor = ctorch::cast(lhs);
-  lhs_tensor = lhs_tensor.matmul(ctorch::cast(rhs));
+  ctorch::cast(lhs) = ctorch::cast(lhs).matmul(ctorch::cast(rhs));
 }
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diff --git a/kmath-torch/src/nativeTest/kotlin/kscience/kmath/torch/BenchmarksDouble.kt b/kmath-torch/src/nativeTest/kotlin/kscience/kmath/torch/BenchmarksDouble.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8024b3eb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kmath-torch/src/nativeTest/kotlin/kscience/kmath/torch/BenchmarksDouble.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package kscience.kmath.torch
+
+import kotlin.test.Test
+import kotlin.time.measureTime
+
+internal fun benchmarkingDoubleMatrixMultiplication(
+    scale: Int,
+    numIter: Int,
+    device: TorchDevice = TorchDevice.TorchCPU
+): Unit {
+    TorchTensorRealAlgebra {
+        println("Benchmarking $scale x $scale matrices over Double's: ")
+        setSeed(SEED)
+        val lhs = randNormal(shape = intArrayOf(scale, scale), device = device)
+        val rhs = randNormal(shape = intArrayOf(scale, scale), device = device)
+        lhs dotAssign rhs
+        val measuredTime = measureTime { repeat(numIter) { lhs dotAssign rhs } }
+        println("   ${measuredTime / numIter} p.o. with $numIter iterations")
+    }
+}
+
+class BenchmarksDouble {
+
+    @Test
+    fun benchmarkMatrixMultiplication20() = benchmarkingDoubleMatrixMultiplication(20, 100000)
+    @Test
+    fun benchmarkMatrixMultiplication200() = benchmarkingDoubleMatrixMultiplication(200, 10000)
+    @Test
+    fun benchmarkMatrixMultiplication2000() = benchmarkingDoubleMatrixMultiplication(2000, 10)
+
+
+}
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diff --git a/kmath-torch/src/nativeTest/kotlin/kscience/kmath/torch/TestTorchTensorAlgebra.kt b/kmath-torch/src/nativeTest/kotlin/kscience/kmath/torch/TestTorchTensorAlgebra.kt
index b49c6f53e..c0518c056 100644
--- a/kmath-torch/src/nativeTest/kotlin/kscience/kmath/torch/TestTorchTensorAlgebra.kt
+++ b/kmath-torch/src/nativeTest/kotlin/kscience/kmath/torch/TestTorchTensorAlgebra.kt
@@ -33,9 +33,12 @@ internal fun testingMatrixMultiplication(device: TorchDevice = TorchDevice.Torch
             lhs dot rhs
         }
 
+        lhsTensor dotAssign rhsTensor
+
         var error: Double = 0.0
         product.elements().forEach {
-            error += abs(expected[it.first] - it.second)
+            error += abs(expected[it.first] - it.second) +
+                    abs(expected[it.first] - lhsTensor[it.first])
         }
         assertTrue(error < TOLERANCE)
     }