diff --git a/python/ray/tune/util.py b/python/ray/tune/util.py
index 256411ace..e0ade8b12 100644
--- a/python/ray/tune/util.py
+++ b/python/ray/tune/util.py
@@ -200,18 +200,22 @@ def _from_pinnable(obj):
     return obj[0]
 
 
-def validate_save_restore(trainable_cls, config=None, use_object_store=False):
+def validate_save_restore(trainable_cls,
+                          config=None,
+                          num_gpus=0,
+                          use_object_store=False):
     """Helper method to check if your Trainable class will resume correctly.
 
     Args:
         trainable_cls: Trainable class for evaluation.
         config (dict): Config to pass to Trainable when testing.
+        num_gpus (int): GPU resources to allocate when testing.
         use_object_store (bool): Whether to save and restore to Ray's object
             store. Recommended to set this to True if planning to use
             algorithms that pause training (i.e., PBT, HyperBand).
     """
     assert ray.is_initialized(), "Need Ray to be initialized."
-    remote_cls = ray.remote(trainable_cls)
+    remote_cls = ray.remote(num_gpus=num_gpus)(trainable_cls)
     trainable_1 = remote_cls.remote(config=config)
     trainable_2 = remote_cls.remote(config=config)