diff --git a/ggml-cuda.cu b/ggml-cuda.cu
index e26260a35..900f7ba4a 100644
--- a/ggml-cuda.cu
+++ b/ggml-cuda.cu
@@ -10184,8 +10184,8 @@ static void ggml_backend_cuda_buffer_set_tensor(ggml_backend_buffer_t buffer, gg
 
     ggml_cuda_set_device(ctx->device);
     CUDA_CHECK(cudaDeviceSynchronize());
-
     CUDA_CHECK(cudaMemcpy((char *)tensor->data + offset, data, size, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice));
+    CUDA_CHECK(cudaDeviceSynchronize());
 }
 
 static void ggml_backend_cuda_buffer_get_tensor(ggml_backend_buffer_t buffer, const ggml_tensor * tensor, void * data, size_t offset, size_t size) {