diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 97440fa738..240c0233a7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ jobs:
           WEBGPU=1 WGPU_BACKEND_TYPE=Vulkan python3 -m pytest -n=auto test/test_assign.py test/test_arange.py test/test_const_folding.py test/test_dtype.py \
           test/test_dtype_alu.py test/test_conv.py test/test_conv_shapetracker.py test/test_nn.py test/test_ops.py test/test_optim.py \
           test/test_jit.py test/test_randomness.py test/test_symbolic_ops.py test/test_symbolic_jit.py test/test_uops_stats.py test/test_uops.py \
-          test/testextra/test_export_model.py --durations=20
+          test/testextra/test_export_model.py test/testextra/test_f16_decompress.py --durations=20
     - name: Run process replay tests
       run: |
         export PR_TITLE=$(jq -r .pull_request.title "$GITHUB_EVENT_PATH")
diff --git a/extra/f16_decompress.py b/extra/f16_decompress.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..26bad9b844
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/f16_decompress.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from tinygrad import Tensor
+
+def bit_extract(x: Tensor, e: int, s: int) -> Tensor:
+  mask = (1 << (e - s + 1)) - 1
+  return (x >> s) & mask
+
+def u16_to_f16(x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+  sign = bit_extract(x, 15, 15).float()
+  exponent = bit_extract(x, 14, 10).float()
+  fraction = bit_extract(x, 9, 0).float()
+  return sign.where(-1, 1) * exponent.where((exponent - 15.0).exp2() * (1 + fraction / 1024.0), 6.103515625e-5 * (fraction / 1024.0))
+
+def u32_to_f16(oo: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+  f1 = u16_to_f16(oo>>16)
+  f2 = u16_to_f16(oo&0xFFFF)
+  return Tensor.cat(f2.reshape(-1, 1), f1.reshape(-1, 1), dim=1).flatten()
diff --git a/extra/f16_w_uint32.py b/extra/f16_w_uint32.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 82105e9b77..0000000000
--- a/extra/f16_w_uint32.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-import numpy as np
-from tinygrad import Device, dtypes, Tensor
-
-# TODO: will be better when tinygrad does math in the target dtype, can remove the floor and use a mul
-def bit_extract(x, s, e) -> Tensor:
-  # extract the top bits we don't want
-  top_bits = (x / (1<<(s+1))).floor() * (1<<(s+1))
-  x = (x - top_bits) / (1<<e)
-  return x.contiguous()
-
-def u16_to_f16(x):
-  sign = bit_extract(x, 15, 15).float()
-  exponent = bit_extract(x, 14, 10).float()
-  fraction = bit_extract(x, 9, 0).float()
-  return sign.where(-1, 1) * exponent.where((exponent - 15).exp2() * (1 + fraction / 0x400), 6.103515625e-5 * (fraction / 0x400))
-
-def u32_to_f16(oo):
-  oo1 = (oo/0x10000).floor().contiguous()
-  # TODO: this is wrong and unextractable until we do this math in u32
-  oo2 = (oo-(oo1*0x10000)).floor().contiguous()
-  f1 = u16_to_f16(oo1)
-  f2 = u16_to_f16(oo2)
-  return Tensor.cat(f2.reshape(-1, 1), f1.reshape(-1, 1), dim=1).flatten()
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-  # random float16
-  Tensor.manual_seed(2)
-  a = Tensor.randn(100, dtype=dtypes.float16)
-
-  # this converts it to u32 on disk
-  oo = a.to("disk:/tmp/f16").cast(dtypes.uint32)[:50].to(Device.DEFAULT).realize()
-
-  # convert to 2xf16 using tinygrad math ops
-  f16 = u32_to_f16(oo)
-
-  ref = a.numpy()
-  out = f16.numpy().astype(np.float16)
-  print(ref-out)
-
-  np.testing.assert_allclose(ref, out)
diff --git a/test/testextra/test_f16_decompress.py b/test/testextra/test_f16_decompress.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9cfa936a49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/testextra/test_f16_decompress.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import unittest
+from extra.f16_decompress import u32_to_f16
+from tinygrad.tensor import Tensor
+from tinygrad.device import Device, is_dtype_supported
+from tinygrad import dtypes
+import numpy as np
+
+class TestF16Decompression(unittest.TestCase):
+  def test_u32_to_f16(self):
+    a = Tensor.randn(50, dtype=dtypes.float16, device=None if is_dtype_supported(dtypes.float16) else "CLANG:0")
+    f16_as_u32 = a.bitcast(dtypes.uint32) if is_dtype_supported(dtypes.float16) else a.bitcast(dtypes.uint32).to(Device.DEFAULT)
+    f16 = u32_to_f16(f16_as_u32)
+    ref = a.numpy()
+    out = f16.numpy().astype(np.float16)
+    np.testing.assert_allclose(out, ref)