diff --git a/keras/src/backend/tensorflow/core.py b/keras/src/backend/tensorflow/core.py
index 6896b74c519..53d9be9d151 100644
--- a/keras/src/backend/tensorflow/core.py
+++ b/keras/src/backend/tensorflow/core.py
@@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ def convert_to_numpy(x):
         x = tf.convert_to_tensor(x)
     elif isinstance(x, tf.RaggedTensor):
         x = x.to_tensor()
-    return np.array(x)
+    return x.numpy() if hasattr(x, "numpy") else np.array(x)
+
 
 
 def is_tensor(x):