diff --git a/thunder/benchmarks/benchmark_litgpt.py b/thunder/benchmarks/benchmark_litgpt.py
index 49974c276a..637c881a2c 100644
--- a/thunder/benchmarks/benchmark_litgpt.py
+++ b/thunder/benchmarks/benchmark_litgpt.py
@@ -453,6 +453,7 @@ def setup_distributed(self, model):
                 )
             elif self.distributed_mode == "fsdp2":
                 # reference: https://github.com/pytorch/torchtitan/blob/6e7a183/docs/fsdp.md
+                from functools import partial
                 from torch.distributed._composable.fsdp import fully_shard, MixedPrecisionPolicy
 
                 if self.bucketing_mode != "none":
@@ -467,25 +468,25 @@ def setup_distributed(self, model):
 
                 reshard_after_forward: bool = self.shard_mode == "zero3"
 
+                _apply_fully_shard = partial(
+                    fully_shard,
+                    mesh=mesh,
+                    reshard_after_forward=reshard_after_forward,
+                    mp_policy=MixedPrecisionPolicy(
+                        param_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+                        reduce_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+                    ),
+                )
+
                 # for transformer_block in model.transformer.modules():
                 for transformer_block in model.modules():
                     if isinstance(transformer_block, Block):
-                        fully_shard(
-                            transformer_block,
-                            mesh=mesh,
-                            reshard_after_forward=reshard_after_forward,
-                            mp_policy=MixedPrecisionPolicy(
-                                param_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
-                                reduce_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
-                            ),
-                        )
+                        _apply_fully_shard(transformer_block)
 
-                fully_shard(
-                    model,
-                    mesh=mesh,
-                    reshard_after_forward=reshard_after_forward,
-                    mp_policy=MixedPrecisionPolicy(param_dtype=torch.bfloat16, reduce_dtype=torch.bfloat16),
-                )
+                _apply_fully_shard(model.lm_head)
+                _apply_fully_shard(model.transformer["wte"])
+                _apply_fully_shard(model.transformer["ln_f"])
+                _apply_fully_shard(model)
                 model.to_empty(device=self.device)
                 model.apply(model._init_weights)