diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 13ba874e4..eb3f03c22 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -3386,7 +3386,7 @@ static void llm_load_tensors(
                         layer.attn_norm = ml.create_tensor(ctx, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd}, backend);
 
                         layer.wqkv = ml.create_tensor(ctx, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_QKV, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_embd * 3}, backend_split);
-                        layer.bqkv = ml.create_tensor(ctx, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_QKV, "bias", i),   {n_embd * 3},         backend_split);
+                        layer.bqkv = ml.create_tensor(ctx, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_QKV, "bias", i),   {n_embd * 3},         backend);
                         layer.wo   = ml.create_tensor(ctx, tn(LLM_TENSOR_ATTN_OUT, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_embd},     backend_split);
 
                         layer.ffn_norm = ml.create_tensor(ctx, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd}, backend);