diff --git a/examples/evaluation/evaluation_inference_speed.py b/examples/evaluation/evaluation_inference_speed.py
index fb3c8d909..837c7ddea 100644
--- a/examples/evaluation/evaluation_inference_speed.py
+++ b/examples/evaluation/evaluation_inference_speed.py
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@
 
 from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
 
-# Limit torch to 4 threads
-torch.set_num_threads(4)
-
 
 model_name = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "bert-base-nli-mean-tokens"