diff --git a/tests/models/opt/test_modeling_tf_opt.py b/tests/models/opt/test_modeling_tf_opt.py
index 61d6aad53fc169..4e9972e4aaa195 100644
--- a/tests/models/opt/test_modeling_tf_opt.py
+++ b/tests/models/opt/test_modeling_tf_opt.py
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ def test_logits(self):
         self.assertTrue(np.allclose(logits, logits_meta, atol=1e-4))
 
 
+@require_tf
 @slow
 class TFOPTGenerationTest(unittest.TestCase):
     @property