diff --git a/phpunit-perf.xml.dist b/phpunit-perf.xml.dist
index b817ae4d4925..576e4cdaf7d8 100644
--- a/phpunit-perf.xml.dist
+++ b/phpunit-perf.xml.dist
@@ -13,4 +13,7 @@
       </exclude>
     </whitelist>
   </filter>
+  <php>
+    <ini name="memory_limit" value="2048M"/>
+  </php>
 </phpunit>
diff --git a/tests/perf/BigQueryTest.php b/tests/perf/BigQueryTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7e2879b53d14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/perf/BigQueryTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Copyright 2017 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+namespace Google\Cloud\Tests\Perf;
+
+use Google\Cloud\BigQuery\BigQueryClient;
+
+/**
+ * @group bigquery
+ */
+class BigQueryPerfTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+    const SOURCE = 'bigquery.json';
+
+    private $client;
+
+    public function setUp()
+    {
+        $keyFilePath = getenv('GOOGLE_CLOUD_PHP_TESTS_KEY_PATH');
+        $this->client = new BigQueryClient([
+            'keyFilePath' => $keyFilePath
+        ]);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @dataProvider queries
+     * @runInSeparateProcess
+     */
+    public function testPerf($query)
+    {
+        $start = microtime(true);
+        $config = $this->client->query($query);
+        $queryResults = $this->client->runQuery($config);
+
+        $rows = 0;
+        $cols = 0;
+        $firstByteDur = 0;
+
+        foreach ($queryResults as $row) {
+            $rows++;
+            if ($cols == 0) {
+                $firstByteDur = microtime(true) - $start;
+                $cols = count($row);
+            } elseif ($cols != count($row)) {
+                throw new Exception("expected $cols cols, found " . count($row));
+            }
+        }
+
+        $totalDur = microtime(true)-$start;
+        echo "query $query: $rows rows, $cols cols, first byte $firstByteDur, total $totalDur" . PHP_EOL;
+    }
+
+    public function queries()
+    {
+        $queries = json_decode(file_get_contents(__DIR__ .'/fixtures/'. self::SOURCE), true);
+        foreach ($queries as $key => $q) {
+            $queries[$key] = is_array($q)
+                ? $q
+                : [$q];
+        }
+
+        return $queries;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/perf/LoggingPerfTestCase.php b/tests/perf/LoggingPerfTest.php
similarity index 96%
rename from tests/perf/LoggingPerfTestCase.php
rename to tests/perf/LoggingPerfTest.php
index e967f13480ae..2150a55d9a10 100644
--- a/tests/perf/LoggingPerfTestCase.php
+++ b/tests/perf/LoggingPerfTest.php
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
 use Google\Cloud\Logging\LoggingClient;
 use Google\Cloud\Logging\PsrLogger;
 
-class LoggingPerfTestCase extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+/**
+ * @group logging
+ */
+class LoggingPerfTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
 {
     /* @var PsrLogger */
     private $restClient;
diff --git a/tests/perf/README.md b/tests/perf/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..699f35947221
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/perf/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+## Performance Tests
+
+Some services contained in Google Cloud PHP provide a performance test, to allow
+Google engineers and others to measure the performance of a client library.
+
+Like other test suites in Google Cloud PHP, performance tests are implemented
+using PHPUnit. Due to the memory-intensive nature of many of these tests, however,
+and the time required to run all tests, it is recommended that you use the test
+group feature to run only the tests required at a given time.
+
+Running the tests is easy, once you have cloned the repository and run
+`composer install` to install all required dependencies.
+
+From the repository root, run the following command:
+
+```sh
+$ vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit-perf.xml.dist --group=<group-name>
+```
+
+The group name can be identified by opening a test file (i.e.
+`tests/perf/BigQueryTest.php`), and looking for the `@group` annotation found
+immediately before the class declaration:
+
+```php
+/**
+ * @group bigquery
+ */
+class BigQueryTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+```
diff --git a/tests/perf/fixtures/bigquery.json b/tests/perf/fixtures/bigquery.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ab6e6c5f82ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/perf/fixtures/bigquery.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[
+    "SELECT * FROM `nyc-tlc.yellow.trips` LIMIT 10000",
+    "SELECT * FROM `nyc-tlc.yellow.trips` LIMIT 100000",
+    "SELECT * FROM `nyc-tlc.yellow.trips` LIMIT 1000000",
+    "SELECT title FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.wikipedia` ORDER BY title LIMIT 1000",
+    "SELECT title, id, timestamp, contributor_ip FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.wikipedia` WHERE title like 'Blo%' ORDER BY id",
+    "SELECT * FROM `bigquery-public-data.baseball.games_post_wide` ORDER BY gameId",
+    "SELECT * FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.github_nested` WHERE repository.has_downloads ORDER BY repository.created_at LIMIT 10000",
+    "SELECT repo_name, path FROM `bigquery-public-data.github_repos.files` WHERE path LIKE '%.java' ORDER BY id LIMIT 1000000"
+]