diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 19c778116..19dec1762 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ But there's more than SD3:
 - css tweaks for modernui
 - additional torch gc checks, thanks @Disty0!
 
-**NNCF**, thanks @Disty0!  
+**Improvements: NNCF**, thanks @Disty0!  
  - SD3 and PixArt support  
  - moved the first compression step to CPU  
  - sequential cpu offload (lowvram) support  
diff --git a/modules/sd_models.py b/modules/sd_models.py
index 8f04b4d22..c4a896de6 100644
--- a/modules/sd_models.py
+++ b/modules/sd_models.py
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ def move_model(model, device=None, force=False):
     if model is None or device is None:
         return
     if getattr(model, 'vae', None) is not None and get_diffusers_task(model) != DiffusersTaskType.TEXT_2_IMAGE:
-        if device == devices.device and not model.vae.device.type == "meta": # force vae back to gpu if not in txt2img mode
+        if device == devices.device and model.vae.device.type != "meta": # force vae back to gpu if not in txt2img mode
             model.vae.to(device)
             if hasattr(model.vae, '_hf_hook'):
                 debug_move(f'Model move: to={device} class={model.vae.__class__} fn={sys._getframe(1).f_code.co_name}') # pylint: disable=protected-access