diff --git a/orttraining/orttraining/eager/opgen/opgen/atenops.py b/orttraining/orttraining/eager/opgen/opgen/atenops.py
index f309d4bd50..882bd42cf6 100644
--- a/orttraining/orttraining/eager/opgen/opgen/atenops.py
+++ b/orttraining/orttraining/eager/opgen/opgen/atenops.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ hand_implemented = {
     "aten::_local_scalar_dense": MakeTorchFallback(),
     "aten::gt.Scalar_out": MakeTorchFallback(),
     "aten::lt.Scalar_out": MakeTorchFallback(),
-    "aten::equal": MakeTorchFallback(),
+    "aten::equal": SignatureOnly(),
     "aten::_softmax": Softmax("self", axis="dim"),
     "aten::argmax.out": SignatureOnly(),
 }
diff --git a/orttraining/orttraining/eager/ort_aten.cpp b/orttraining/orttraining/eager/ort_aten.cpp
index a053e8749d..b2133eb8c9 100644
--- a/orttraining/orttraining/eager/ort_aten.cpp
+++ b/orttraining/orttraining/eager/ort_aten.cpp
@@ -682,6 +682,72 @@ at::Tensor& out) {
   return out;
 }
 
+// aten::equal(Tensor self, Tensor other) -> bool
+bool equal(
+  const at::Tensor& self,
+  const at::Tensor& other) {
+  ORT_LOG_FN(self, other);
+
+  if (
+    std::vector<at::ScalarType> supportedTypes =
+      {at::kFloat, at::kBFloat16, at::kHalf, at::kDouble, at::kLong, at::kByte, at::kInt, at::kShort, at::kBool};
+    !IsSupportedType(self, supportedTypes) ||
+    !IsSupportedType(other, supportedTypes)) {
+    return at::native::call_fallback_fn<
+      &at::native::cpu_fallback,
+      ATEN_OP(equal)>::call(self, other);
+  }
+
+  auto& invoker = GetORTInvoker(self.device());
+
+  auto ort_input_self = create_ort_value(invoker, self);
+  auto ort_input_other = create_ort_value(invoker, other);
+
+  auto& ort_tensor_self = ort_input_self.Get<onnxruntime::Tensor>();
+  auto& shape_self = ort_tensor_self.Shape();
+  auto& ort_tensor_other = ort_input_other.Get<onnxruntime::Tensor>();
+  auto& shape_other = ort_tensor_other.Shape();
+
+  // ensure shape is equal
+  if (shape_self != shape_other) return false;
+
+  // to check content, we'll do elementwise comparison
+  // then we'll reduce to the mininum value based on false
+  // being less than true, so any false will reduce to false.
+  std::vector<OrtValue> ort_outputs_0_Equal(1);
+
+  auto equalStatus = invoker.Invoke("Equal", {
+    std::move(ort_input_self),
+    std::move(ort_input_other),
+  }, ort_outputs_0_Equal, nullptr);
+
+  if (!equalStatus.IsOK())
+    throw std::runtime_error(
+      "ORT Equal return failure status:" + equalStatus.ErrorMessage());
+
+  // now reduce the resulting tensor of bool values to its minimum value (any false)
+  NodeAttributes attrs(1);
+  attrs["keepdims"] = create_ort_attribute(
+    "keepdims", 0, at::ScalarType::Int);
+
+  std::vector<OrtValue> ort_outputs_0_ReduceMin(1);
+
+  // ReduceMin does not support bool or short and CastToType does not support Byte because
+  // GetONNXTensorProtoDataType doesn't support byte, which leaves us with int
+  OrtValue equalAsInt = CastToType(invoker, ort_outputs_0_Equal[0], at::ScalarType::Int);
+
+  auto reduceStatus = invoker.Invoke("ReduceMin", {
+    std::move(equalAsInt),
+  }, ort_outputs_0_ReduceMin, &attrs);
+
+  if (!reduceStatus.IsOK())
+    throw std::runtime_error(
+      "ORT ReduceMin return failure reduceStatus:" + reduceStatus.ErrorMessage());
+
+  auto* ort_tensor = ort_outputs_0_ReduceMin[0].GetMutable<onnxruntime::Tensor>();
+  // the first (and only) value of the tensor will be 0 for false else true
+  return *(ort_tensor->Data<int>()) != 0;
+}
 
 } // namespace aten
 
diff --git a/orttraining/orttraining/eager/test/ort_ops.py b/orttraining/orttraining/eager/test/ort_ops.py
index 3e05a9538d..53bda0752a 100644
--- a/orttraining/orttraining/eager/test/ort_ops.py
+++ b/orttraining/orttraining/eager/test/ort_ops.py
@@ -120,9 +120,29 @@ class OrtOpTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_equal(self):
         device = self.get_device()
-        cpu_x = torch.ones(3, 3, dtype=torch.float32)
-        cpu_y = torch.ones(3, 3, dtype=torch.float32)
-        assert torch.equal(cpu_x.to(device), cpu_y.to(device))
+        cpu_a = torch.Tensor([1.0, 1.5])
+        ort_a = cpu_a.to(device)
+        cpu_b = torch.Tensor([1.0, 1.5])
+        ort_b = cpu_b.to(device)
+        cpu_c = torch.Tensor([1.0, 1.8])
+        ort_c = cpu_c.to(device)
+        cpu_d = torch.Tensor([1.0, 1.5, 2.1])
+        ort_d = cpu_d.to(device)
+        cpu_e = torch.Tensor([[1.0, 1.5]])
+        ort_e = cpu_e.to(device)
+
+        # a = b
+        assert torch.equal(cpu_a, cpu_b)
+        assert torch.equal(ort_a, ort_b)
+        # a != c based on one value
+        assert not torch.equal(cpu_a, cpu_c)
+        assert not torch.equal(ort_a, ort_c)
+        # a != d because size of dim 1 is not equal
+        assert not torch.equal(cpu_a, cpu_d)
+        assert not torch.equal(ort_a, ort_d)
+        # a != e because dim does not match
+        assert not torch.equal(cpu_a, cpu_e)
+        assert not torch.equal(ort_a, ort_e)
 
     def test_torch_ones(self):
         device = self.get_device()