diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/CMakeLists.txt b/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/CMakeLists.txt
index 46f678b85..66a5ad8d2 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -589,4 +589,9 @@ function(ggml_add_cpu_backend_variant_impl tag_name)
     if (EMSCRIPTEN)
         set_target_properties(${GGML_CPU_NAME} PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-msimd128")
     endif()
+
+    if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "IntelLLVM")
+        # The compiler automatically enables "-ffast-math" which can cause NaNs in tests due to "-fassociative-math"
+        target_compile_options(${GGML_CPU_NAME} PRIVATE "-fno-associative-math")
+    endif()
 endfunction()
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
index 4ecca4165..ae5e06257 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
@@ -4215,6 +4215,7 @@ static bool ggml_backend_sycl_device_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev, const g
                 case GGML_UNARY_OP_GELU_QUICK:
                 case GGML_UNARY_OP_GELU_ERF:
                 case GGML_UNARY_OP_TANH:
+                case GGML_UNARY_OP_EXP:
                 case GGML_UNARY_OP_SGN:
                 case GGML_UNARY_OP_ABS:
                 case GGML_UNARY_OP_ELU:
@@ -4223,9 +4224,6 @@ static bool ggml_backend_sycl_device_supports_op(ggml_backend_dev_t dev, const g
 #else
                     return ggml_is_contiguous(op->src[0]) && (op->src[0]->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && op->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) && (op->type == op->src[0]->type);
 #endif
-                case GGML_UNARY_OP_EXP:
-                     // Disable FP16 until we find out the root cause of failing fp16 sycl::exp
-                    return ggml_is_contiguous(op->src[0]) && (op->type == op->src[0]->type) && op->src[0]->type == GGML_TYPE_F32;
                 default:
                     return false;
             }