diff --git a/src/llama-model.cpp b/src/llama-model.cpp
index 774e343fb..7b66e2a03 100644
--- a/src/llama-model.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-model.cpp
@@ -4792,7 +4792,7 @@ struct llm_build_deci : public llm_graph_context {
             }
 
             // FFN-free layer of Llama-3_1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B
-            if (n_head == 0 && n_ff == 0) {
+            if (n_ff == 0) {
                 continue;
             }