diff --git a/test/models/test_train.py b/test/models/test_train.py
index 6020a8e777..605e6f6de1 100644
--- a/test/models/test_train.py
+++ b/test/models/test_train.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ class TestTrain(unittest.TestCase):
     check_gc()
 
   @unittest.skipIf(CI, "slow")
+  @unittest.skipIf(Device.DEFAULT in ["METAL", "WEBGPU"], "too many buffers for webgpu and metal")
   def test_efficientnet(self):
     model = EfficientNet(0)
     X = np.zeros((BS,3,224,224), dtype=np.float32)
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ class TestTrain(unittest.TestCase):
     train_one_step(model,X,Y)
     check_gc()
 
+  @unittest.skipIf(Device.DEFAULT in ["METAL", "WEBGPU"], "too many buffers for webgpu and metal")
   def test_transformer(self):
     # this should be small GPT-2, but the param count is wrong
     # (real ff_dim is 768*4)