diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 94da4fc..73ca990 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name = "OneHotArrays"
 uuid = "0b1bfda6-eb8a-41d2-88d8-f5af5cad476f"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.2.3"
 
 [deps]
 Adapt = "79e6a3ab-5dfb-504d-930d-738a2a938a0e"
diff --git a/src/onehot.jl b/src/onehot.jl
index ca2efa5..d2d5e9d 100644
--- a/src/onehot.jl
+++ b/src/onehot.jl
@@ -101,14 +101,24 @@ function _onehotbatch(data, labels, default)
 end
 
 function onehotbatch(data::AbstractArray{<:Integer}, labels::AbstractUnitRange{<:Integer})
-  # lo, hi = extrema(data)  # fails on Julia 1.6
-  lo, hi = minimum(data), maximum(data)
+  lo, hi = extrema(data)
   lo < first(labels) && error("Value $lo not found in labels")
   hi > last(labels) && error("Value $hi not found in labels")
   offset = 1 - first(labels)
   indices = UInt32.(data .+ offset)
   return OneHotArray(indices, length(labels))
 end
+# That bounds check with extrema synchronises on GPU, much slower than rest of the function,
+# hence add a special method, with a less helpful error message:
+function onehotbatch(data::AbstractGPUArray{<:Integer}, labels::AbstractUnitRange{<:Integer})
+  offset = 1 - first(labels)
+  indices = map(data) do datum
+    i = UInt32(datum + offset)
+    checkbounds(labels, i)
+    i
+  end
+  return OneHotArray(indices, length(labels))
+end
 
 """
     onecold(y::AbstractArray, labels = 1:size(y,1))
diff --git a/test/gpu.jl b/test/gpu.jl
index cd04815..681353f 100644
--- a/test/gpu.jl
+++ b/test/gpu.jl
@@ -30,10 +30,14 @@ end
   y1 = onehotbatch([1, 3, 0, 2], 0:9) |> cu
   y2 = onehotbatch([1, 3, 0, 2] |> cu, 0:9)
   @test y1.indices == y2.indices
-  @test_broken y1 == y2
+  @test_broken y1 == y2  # issue 28
 
-  @test_throws Exception onehotbatch([1, 3, 0, 2] |> cu, 1:10)
-  @test_throws Exception onehotbatch([1, 3, 0, 2] |> cu, -2:2)
+  if !CUDA.functional()
+    # Here CUDA gives an error which @test_throws does not notice,
+    # although with JLArrays @test_throws it's fine.
+    @test_throws Exception onehotbatch([1, 3, 0, 2] |> cu, 1:10)
+    @test_throws Exception onehotbatch([1, 3, 0, 2] |> cu, -2:2)
+  end
 end
 
 @testset "onecold gpu" begin