diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 4b24b3f9dee19..728cdc1359a3d 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -7244,10 +7244,10 @@ def _clip_with_scalar(self, lower, upper, inplace: bool_t = False):
 
         with np.errstate(all="ignore"):
             if upper is not None:
-                subset = (self <= upper).to_numpy()
+                subset = self <= upper
                 result = result.where(subset, upper, axis=None, inplace=False)
             if lower is not None:
-                subset = (self >= lower).to_numpy()
+                subset = self >= lower
                 result = result.where(subset, lower, axis=None, inplace=False)
 
         if np.any(mask):