diff --git a/convert/convert_test.go b/convert/convert_test.go
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+++ b/convert/convert_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+//go:build slow
+
+package convert
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/ollama/ollama/llm"
+)
+
+func convertFull(t *testing.T, p string) (llm.KV, llm.Tensors) {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	mf, err := GetModelFormat(p)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	params, err := mf.GetParams(p)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	arch, err := mf.GetModelArch("", p, params)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if err := arch.LoadVocab(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if err := arch.GetTensors(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	f, err := os.CreateTemp(t.TempDir(), "f16")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+
+	if err := arch.WriteGGUF(f); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	r, err := os.Open(f.Name())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer r.Close()
+
+	m, _, err := llm.DecodeGGML(r)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	return m.KV(), m.Tensors()
+}
+
+func TestConvertFull(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		path    string
+		arch    string
+		tensors int
+		layers  int
+	}{
+		{"Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct", "llama", 291, 35},
+		{"Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2", "llama", 291, 35},
+		{"Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1", "llama", 291, 35},
+		{"gemma-2b-it", "gemma", 164, 20},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range cases {
+		t.Run(tt.path, func(t *testing.T) {
+			p := filepath.Join("testdata", tt.path)
+			if _, err := os.Stat(p); err != nil {
+				t.Skipf("%s not found", p)
+			}
+
+			kv, tensors := convertFull(t, p)
+
+			if kv.Architecture() != tt.arch {
+				t.Fatalf("expected llama, got %s", kv.Architecture())
+			}
+
+			if kv.FileType().String() != "F16" {
+				t.Fatalf("expected F16, got %s", kv.FileType())
+			}
+
+			if len(tensors) != tt.tensors {
+				t.Fatalf("expected %d tensors, got %d", tt.tensors, len(tensors))
+			}
+
+			layers := tensors.Layers()
+			if len(layers) != tt.layers {
+				t.Fatalf("expected %d layers, got %d", tt.layers, len(layers))
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}