diff --git a/source/blender/draw/engines/image/image_drawing_mode.hh b/source/blender/draw/engines/image/image_drawing_mode.hh
index 21dac8009f6..8913b7469ed 100644
--- a/source/blender/draw/engines/image/image_drawing_mode.hh
+++ b/source/blender/draw/engines/image/image_drawing_mode.hh
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ template<typename TextureMethod> class ScreenSpaceDrawingMode : public AbstractD
             offset++;
           }
         }
+        IMB_gpu_clamp_half_float(&extracted_buffer);
 
         GPU_texture_update_sub(texture,
                                GPU_DATA_FLOAT,
@@ -388,6 +389,7 @@ template<typename TextureMethod> class ScreenSpaceDrawingMode : public AbstractD
       }
       BKE_image_release_ibuf(image, tile_buffer, lock);
     }
+    IMB_gpu_clamp_half_float(&texture_buffer);
     GPU_texture_update(info.texture, GPU_DATA_FLOAT, texture_buffer.rect_float);
     imb_freerectImbuf_all(&texture_buffer);
   }
diff --git a/source/blender/imbuf/IMB_imbuf.h b/source/blender/imbuf/IMB_imbuf.h
index 7e652e31506..5c76dfe52df 100644
--- a/source/blender/imbuf/IMB_imbuf.h
+++ b/source/blender/imbuf/IMB_imbuf.h
@@ -894,6 +894,13 @@ eGPUTextureFormat IMB_gpu_get_texture_format(const struct ImBuf *ibuf,
                                              bool high_bitdepth,
                                              bool use_grayscale);
 
+/**
+ * Ensures that values stored in the float rect can safely loaded into half float gpu textures.
+ *
+ * Does nothing when given image_buffer doesn't contain a float rect.
+ */
+void IMB_gpu_clamp_half_float(struct ImBuf *image_buffer);
+
 /**
  * The `ibuf` is only here to detect the storage type. The produced texture will have undefined
  * content. It will need to be populated by using #IMB_update_gpu_texture_sub().
diff --git a/source/blender/imbuf/intern/util_gpu.c b/source/blender/imbuf/intern/util_gpu.c
index 6f1275e1812..dd509677d8d 100644
--- a/source/blender/imbuf/intern/util_gpu.c
+++ b/source/blender/imbuf/intern/util_gpu.c
@@ -370,3 +370,19 @@ eGPUTextureFormat IMB_gpu_get_texture_format(const ImBuf *ibuf,
 
   return gpu_texture_format;
 }
+
+void IMB_gpu_clamp_half_float(ImBuf *image_buffer)
+{
+  const float half_min = -65504;
+  const float half_max = 65504;
+  if (!image_buffer->rect_float) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  int rect_float_len = image_buffer->x * image_buffer->y *
+                       (image_buffer->channels == 0 ? 4 : image_buffer->channels);
+
+  for (int i = 0; i < rect_float_len; i++) {
+    image_buffer->rect_float[i] = clamp_f(image_buffer->rect_float[i], half_min, half_max);
+  }
+}