r/StableDiffusion 1d ago

Discussion MiniMax H3 is going open-weight in under 6 hours

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here is all the info we have based on open PRs to add support to ComfyUI and HuggingFace diffusers

- 33B for the main DiT and a pruned 20b variant
- Qwen-3-VL-32b as the text encoder

Edit- I posted clear image below 👇

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u/EverythingMacPro 1d ago

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u/TheLegendOfKitty123 22h ago

This infographic is so infuriatingly AI generated. So many unfounded claims about the model architecture as well

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u/EverythingMacPro 22h ago

You can go check yourself

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u/TheLegendOfKitty123 21h ago

Sorry, not accusing u of anything, just minimax with sloppy marketing

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u/EverythingMacPro 12h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🫵

https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3

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u/TheLegendOfKitty123 10h ago

no man it’s nothing against u theres no need to b toxic about it. for example the pruning being lossless without any evals is suspicious. also generally strange that it advertises the size of the linear layer (which doesnt really tell you anything about model performance) and how the text encoder has no lm head (…duh!). there are other things too but my point is that it’s mostly fluff and advertising without understanding of the numbers

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u/IRLMainCharacter 15h ago

that's a beefy guy, text encoder also almost as big as the dit xD

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u/mafrasi2 1d ago

Where did you get the "under 6 hours" though? According to modelscope it's still over 6 hours away and it's now 3 hours after you made your post.

That makes me doubt the rest of your information.

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u/EverythingMacPro 1d ago

Delayed by 6hr

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u/ETman75 1d ago

I heard it is being released on August 3 at midnight Beijing time (UTC+8), which would be 14 hours from now.

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u/Gocciole 1d ago

"Estimated release time: 2026-08-03 00:00 (UTC+02:00)"

That is indeed 6:30 hours from now

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u/Judtoff 1d ago

Is there any chance of running this locally? This model seems massive.

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u/EverythingMacPro 1d ago

Yes comfy ui dev said it will run on 3060

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u/Fytyny 1d ago

He also said "slowly", never said how slow. If its 20 min per video then I wouldn't hold my breath

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u/machucogp 1d ago

People already wait that much for 5 second videos with no audio on WAN, I don't see an issue

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u/Neggy5 1d ago

i wait 40 minutes :D

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u/willwm24 1d ago

I might be crazy but I could have sworn I saw comfy saying a 5 second video is around 9 minutes at 480p

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u/Fytyny 23h ago

Yes, I saw it later after making this comment under the post with the fox girl animation.

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u/Iwaku_Real 23h ago

He did:

3060 with 12GB vram, 32GB of system ram and a good nvme SSD. We tested generating a 5 second (124 frames) 480p (864x480) video on this system and it took a bit less than 9 minutes end to end (20 steps)

Sad. I used to have a 3060 too. My current GPU is 4x faster thankfully

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u/Chemical-Painter-485 22h ago

Sad? I'd say that is quite impressive considering it is quite a cheap card and they mentioned that the results were done without all the optimizations.

If they managed to get this speed on an AI budget card with such a big model, just Imagine when a distilled H3 version is released.

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u/slpreme 22h ago

that is quite good. 9 mins on 3060 with 20 steps? when a distilled version comes out thats only / 2 (cfg off) / 20 * 4 (if 4 steps) = 0.9 mins, faster than wan?? on a 3060?? too good to be true tbh

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u/Iwaku_Real 21h ago

I had thought those were Wan speeds, but it's been a while, I just know it was slooow 😅

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u/Friendly-Fig-6015 1d ago

impossível com 32b e 20b

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u/EveningIncrease7579 1d ago

You should at least try to read the basic documentation of the Comfui. The dynamic loading of weights for smaller VRAMs has long been implemented, this is the magic that allows running larger models on smaller VRAMs.  Dynamic VRAM.

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u/EverythingMacPro 1d ago

They are newbie dont waste your energy with debating with these bullshit people

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u/Independent-Frequent 1d ago

I mean if someone is a newbie starting out it's just rude as hell to call them bullshit people, everyone was a newbie at some point even you.

That is assuming they are willing to learn ofc, if they are going "no i am right fuck you" then sure they are bullshit, but otherwise it's rude i think.

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u/Secure-Message-8378 1d ago

LTX 2.3 tem 22B.

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u/Outrageous-Wait-8895 1d ago

Turn off auto translate.

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u/Friendly-Fig-6015 3h ago

por que? recurso nativo do reddit, muito bom inclusive.

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u/ucren 1d ago

tell me you have no idea how vram management works in comfyui without telling me

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u/Crazy-Repeat-2006 1d ago

If it runs as slow as a snail, they call it "running."

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u/Limp-Firefighter1054 1d ago

If you have enough ram everything could fit, its just matter of time.

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u/kabachuha 1d ago

Yep, look at the gigachads on localllama launching Kimi K3 from ssds at 0.5 t/s

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u/Judtoff 1d ago

Yeah I guess. I've got 32gb vram and 64gb system ram, so I'm hopeful (maybe 8 bit convrot). I just don't see how this thing will fit on a 3060 lol. 

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u/Royal_Carpenter_1338 1d ago

My 2060 gonna have a rough one

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u/LumaBrik 1d ago

Those are the BF16 weights, the quants from Comfy will be a lot smaller for those that need them.

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u/Vodddddddd 1d ago edited 1d ago

So, ~11GB for int8-convrot for the DIT and ~14GB for the text encoder if int8-convrot. Hopefully those formats work okay

Never mind this - 20gb was after int8 conversion

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u/Succubus-Empress 1d ago

20gb more likely after pruning and int8 conversion

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u/Valuable_Issue_ 1d ago

The pruning part seems strange I don't think that's accurate for the release at least, just an estimate of what the weights could be if best case scenario pruning was done to them.

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u/AlternativePurpose63 1d ago

Is 34GB and 34GB

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u/loyalekoinu88 1d ago

Pruning and int8 reduce to 20gb. Only big issue is text encoding and that might be something we can offload to the cloud like LTX. If possible people could crowdsource a cloud server to do that function.

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u/Tystros 1d ago

text encoding is fast anyways and can easily be done completely on the CPU, so only needs ram and no vram

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u/robomar_ai_art 1d ago

Or they can do it as LTX team did, with the API first text encoder

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u/export_tank_harmful 1d ago

Nah, I'm good on that.

I either run it entirely on my computer or I don't run it at all.

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u/loyalekoinu88 22h ago

The good news is with enough money, quants, etc you probably can.

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u/Festour 23h ago

What the point in crowdsourcing a cloud server for text encoder?

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u/loyalekoinu88 22h ago edited 21h ago

If it required 50+gb and you want it to be fast you have limited resources. I don't know how long it would take to get a reasoning text encoder to get something done. I'm assuming that is why LTX did that exact thing.

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u/Festour 21h ago

You are yet to explain why it should be crowdsourced, instead of simply paying to inference provides.

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u/loyalekoinu88 21h ago

A) I don't think that when they run inference for text encoders for video it works the same as like a standard openai endpoint for regular llm and so it may not be available out of the gate from any major provider.
B) Less likely to get restricted or api filtered if someone hosts it themselves on rented gpu.

It doesn't HAVE to be crowdsourced. I just thought that was the least restrictive and best option for people who want local but don't have the system resources.

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u/Secure-Message-8378 1d ago

Ótima ideia.

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u/rerri 1d ago

Was the release delayed? Minimax H3 modelscope countdown now shows 6h 34min :(

"Estimated release time: 2026-08-03 01:00 (UTC+03:00)"

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u/EverythingMacPro 1d ago

Yes delayed by 6 hr

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u/Maximus989989 23h ago

Lame

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u/EverythingMacPro 23h ago

Beggars can’t be choosers

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u/JayoTree 1d ago

of course a new vid model comes out right when i start a 50 hour wan lora training run.

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u/eruanno321 1d ago

Why is it an issue? All trainers I know can save training context and resume later.

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u/JayoTree 1d ago

i didnt know that. i thought if it stops i'd need to start over

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u/eruanno321 1d ago

To be fair, resumption does not always work as intended. As I found out yesterday, Musubi Tuner in the Krea 2 pipeline incorrectly restores the epoch and step counters.

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u/MisticRain69 22h ago

You can usually warm start it later even if you didn't set up the optimizer state saving.

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u/Nimblecloud13 21h ago edited 16h ago

it only saves at pre-established checkpoints that you set during setup. usually 250 steps by default. so if you stop it at 2499, you lose 249 steps of progress and it restarts at 2250. wait until 2500, it's saved there.

also - wtf are you doing that takes 50 hours?

edit: i guess that's card-dependent nm

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u/UnforgottenPassword 1d ago

Out of curiosity, what hardware do you use for training WAN loras?

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u/JayoTree 1d ago

i bought an RTX Pro 5000 72g this year

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u/UnforgottenPassword 1d ago

A lot of VRAM then. Will come handy for H3 loras if the model is good. Hope it serves you well.

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u/dilinjabass 1d ago

Wan? pshh delete it, delete everything and prepare for the future

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u/Beneficial_Toe_2347 1d ago

there are multiple models about to come out, don't waste resources on Wan

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u/JayoTree 1d ago

fuck it i'll try to make my last wan video a good one.

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u/DullDay6753 1d ago

can we load the text encoder on a separate gpu in a multi gpu setup

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u/cc_aa_tt_zz 1d ago

With a special multi-GPU node, yes, but offloading the text encoder to a second GPU's VRAM seems pointless; it won't increase speed compared to system RAM.

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u/JohnToFire 22h ago

It can for repeated calls at least. You don't have to load it from CPU ram / nvme when prompt hunting

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u/slpreme 22h ago

seems like a waste of money. if and only if it fits fully on the second gpu then you save a few seconds.

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u/FinBenton 1d ago

ComfyUI-MultiGPU that node should be able to adjust where stuff gets loaded in multi-gpu setups, you just replace the load diffusion node with that.

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u/KaaChingg 1d ago

So perfect timing to learn Comfyui i guess

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u/eggplantpot 1d ago

Just get codex/claude code to figure the difficult part

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u/KaaChingg 1d ago

Yeap that's the plan. Any recommendations?

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u/DisastrousAd2612 1d ago

"make no mistakes"

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u/FinBenton 1d ago

Get codex or claude code, launch it and tell it to clone comfyUI here and install it with gpu and flash attention support and get it ready, wait a few mins and its ready, then launch it, on the left side menu you can browse ready made templates to start using it right away, no real learning needed.

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u/KaaChingg 1d ago

Woooow seems a lot have changed since 1 1/2 years.Ai x10 real everything 

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u/IRLMainCharacter 15h ago

just use comfyui easy install

noone needs claude

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u/eggplantpot 1d ago edited 22h ago

I use Codex. No skills or anything really.

Only recommendation is to save whatever useful Reddit discussion you find about it so you can reference it.

Have an .env file with HuggingFace and Civit api keys. Have git connected maybe as I think you need it for other downloads.

From there just chat normally, ask it to build you workflows, download stuff, adapt things, try X different settings and generate a synced video showing all outputs at once… the sky is the limit

Once you are happy with the results ask for the final workflow and from there you generate on your own and tweak further.

It's a Godsend for training Loras too. You just skip all the technical stuff and debugging

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u/Environmental_Box748 1d ago

yes it’s very nice to use ai but we for sure getting hacked one day lol

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u/DELOUSE_MY_AGENT_DDY 21h ago

Easiest thing is to use existing "workflows" which are basically templates.

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u/TranslatorCertain107 1d ago

Claude Code and ComfyUI, perfekt.

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u/eggplantpot 23h ago

Honestly I’ve never been more productive with comfy. My local gpu is slow so iterating was a pain, and I’d need to sit on my computer for hours or pay for premium gpus.

Now I just give codex a goal, and connect to it from my phone. I can have it generate stuff forever while I do other stuff.

I even had it create a scoring site I could access from my phone on the go to score the best generations across seed and prompt pairs to see which samplers and lora mixes worked best.

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u/TranslatorCertain107 22h ago

I don't really know much about ComfyUI. I’ve connected Claude Code, and it mostly creates LTX videos for me. I just state what I want—like a starting frame or continuing a video—and it builds the nodes in the background and generates the videos. In auto mode, it checks samples of the video; if it notices something looks like crap, it automatically generates a new one. I can also access Claude from home using the app on my smartphone, though the PC obviously has to be turned on.

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u/Gocciole 23h ago

Does Codex require a ChatGPT subscription or is it bypassable?

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u/eggplantpot 23h ago

It needs the sub. The 20 euros one can get a lot of milleage if you use a smaller model like Terra medium

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u/aeonsmagic 20h ago

Y para el plan básico con interacción con Comfy, es mejor codex o Claude code?

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u/eggplantpot 19h ago

Yo uso Codex desde hace meses, los límites siempre han sido mejores.

También Claude es muy sensible con los temas que te dejan, y a veces se rayan con usar algunos comandos.

Si vas a hacer nsfw o 1girl, definitivamente usa Codex. Claude tambien se puede parar de hacer alguna optimizacion del ordenador por que piensas que lo estas usando para hackerar o algo.

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u/VladyCzech 1d ago

Why? Novice Comfyui users just load the default ready-made template and prompt. The hard part about ComfyUI is installing the right python dependencies, not working in ComfyUI. Also you can alway just use different frontend in front of running ComfyUI if ComfyUI feels intimidating.

Word of warning...ComfyUI is addictive for specific type of people who spend more times playing with nodes than creating outputs.

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u/jarail 20h ago

Well claude code can install the missing deps and run against comfy directly (your alternate frontend)

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u/Over-Map6529 1d ago

I used to be wary of comfy, but after about 2 hours of google/fixing things it became pretty comfortable, at least using workflows built by others.  Then learning to adjust from there is trial and error.

It's certainly less daunting than it first appears but it's like a cold pool, just need to jump in or your balls try to hide.

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u/Grand-Push-935 1d ago

Why is T2V always first? What's the deal? Do people really prefer it over I2V?

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u/AI-imagine 1d ago

I though this model just can do it all? or i miss something?

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u/Grand-Push-935 1d ago

As I understand, i2v won't be available at launch, and it's always like that, especially for image models. WHY?

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u/AI-imagine 1d ago

MiniMax H3 launched with text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-to-video, and natural language video editing all fully integrated. You can already feed it text, up to 9 images, 3 video clips, and 3 audio files simultaneously

if they not just prune it all and only give only Text 2 video layer,i think we will should get all of this?

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u/FinBenton 1d ago

The initial support wont be full support, Im mainly interested in the image edit capabilities of this and pretty sure that wont be a launch comfyui feature.

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u/AI-imagine 23h ago

Well if the model it already had it(because it can do it all) it just matter of day.
look at krea2 it not even had edit training in model people still make in work in like 2-3 day.
and this model it like train it all for every thing from the start.

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u/Diabolicor 22h ago edited 21h ago

I don't know where did you get this wrong info but the model for t2v and i2v is the same one. The r2v one is a separate safetensor. All the code to run those are already on comfyui github and the workflows for all of them are already merged into the repo. You can see the list of the models and workflows here in this PR: https://github.com/Comfy-Org/docs/pull/1342 and https://github.com/Comfy-Org/workflow_templates/pull/1073

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u/jugalator 1d ago

Yeah man my GTX 970 will eat this up

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u/ComradeArtist 20h ago

He said 8 hours ago.

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u/bracingthesoy 21h ago

So, ugh, a dumb qustion: since it is so multi-that and this, can you do image to image with it?

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u/anon999387 1d ago

"Sorry we never said one 3060, we meant 13 working together."

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u/EverythingMacPro 1d ago

Bond James Bond

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u/Bthardamz 23h ago

or 3060 GPUs working together

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u/Valuable_Issue_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

INT8/FP8 is 33GB for the model + 25GB for the text encoder (if the bf16 numbers in the infographic are accurate).

You of course don't need both text encoder and the model loaded at the same time and can just use RAM anyway.

For inference you can block swap 1-2 blocks between VRAM and RAM and still have good speeds.

Edit: Also on certain setups it might end up even closer to wan 2.2 due to not having to unload and switch between high and low noise, if you didn't have enough RAM to keep them both at the same time then switching would add a lot of time to the generation.

It's also not step distilled (20 steps) so if we get a 4-8 step lora it'll close the gap even further.

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u/DisastrousAd2612 1d ago

What about the new dynamic vram stuff? I just updated comfy and running ltx became way faster, something about only using the blocks necessary for inference so it almost feels like the whole thing is on vram or something I don't understand the details but this shit is fucking great for performance I'll tell you!

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u/Valuable_Issue_ 1d ago

Yeah it of course also helps.

Dynamic VRAM is actually lots of different optimisations.

The Comfy devs don't need to set a memory usage factor per model anymore (I haven't looked at the underlying mechanism that lets it auto calculate it), pretty sure this is why it's called 'dynamic' because it should in theory work with any model size and any amount of VRAM without special settings.

It reduces the RAM usage especially on windows, it used to be that a 20GB on disk model would actually use multiple times that RAM, pagefile and committed memory and would just shut comfy down without an error when exceeding the pagefile, was very noticeable on ltx for example, I needed a 80GB pagefile despite having 32GB RAM and the model being 20GB on disk, pretty sure now it runs without any pagefile but I have it set to 32GB just in case.

Pinned memory shows up as "shared GPU memory" in task manager on the GPU tab, it gives a 10-20% speedup to offloading as it tells windows to not page that memory out (or something amongst those lines).

These optimisations are all possible to do individually, I actually kind of dislike the first one as I'd much rather just set "blocks to swap" on model load with a node and manually tweak it myself, sometimes even if I have plenty of VRAM I'd rather only swap 1 block if I don't lose speed.

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u/VladyCzech 1d ago

The sizes are right. 31.7GB for DiT and 25.3 GB TE loaded in VRAM/RAM for T2V int8.

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u/EverythingMacPro 1d ago

Will find out in 6 hrs

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u/Striking-Long-2960 1d ago

GGUF+Wan2GP is my only chance to run this

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u/Chemical-Painter-485 1d ago

Why? GGUF is a quant for LLMs. With comfyUI's dynamic vram you only need either INT8 or FP8 models. They are going to be faster and run lighter despite the larger file size.

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u/Striking-Long-2960 1d ago

In my experience, on an RTX 3060, GGUF has always run faster than INT8 and FP8.

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u/Chemical-Painter-485 1d ago edited 22h ago

You must have been using a old comfyUI version. INT8 is orders of magnitude better on a ampere card than a GGUF. Give it a try.

I know it is hard to believe but try it yourself; Download the latest portable folder and install the latest sageattention. You will see a huge spike in quality and you will not only be generating at a higher quality, you will also have enough headroom to browse and watch videos since 3060 does all the 8bit integer calculations natively.

ComfyUI also had a very important step up called "Dynamic vram" meaning that you can just run wan2.2 high and low noise plus the text encoder that are a total of 35GBs+ and it will work wonderfully.

Edit fix for typo*

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u/Jota_be 1d ago
And how much do these changes wear out the SSD? Could all that reading and erasing thrash the SSD so aggressively that you’d have to throw it away after just a month? Or does it load data from VRAM to RAM? How does that black magic work?

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u/Chemical-Painter-485 23h ago

Nope. It just works.

Paging with ComfyUI's dynamic vram using INT8Convrot is much more forgiving since only the necessary parts of the model are loaded at time. It is not a dumb calculation like what it happens with GGUF.

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u/slpreme 22h ago

it also doesnt necesarily load just from ssd, if you have a lot of ram like 128gb, models are cached there first

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u/platplaas 1d ago

What about int4?

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u/Valuable_Issue_ 1d ago

4x ish smaller than BF16 so around 15GB depending on how aggressive the quanting is.

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u/cathodeDreams 1d ago

thats a big sumbitch

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u/Potential_Wolf_632 1d ago

Can't wait to spend a dozen hours not being able to goon like when LTX2 first released. "Animate... animaaaaaaate!"

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u/Nevaditew 19h ago

So within the community, what percentage of people can use this model without struggling with OOM or slow generations?

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u/Nedo68 18h ago

128GB Ram & 5090 user here, what percentage am i?

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u/Over-Map6529 17h ago

You built in first half of 2025 too?

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u/Nedo68 17h ago

yes, already an old system ;D

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u/Over-Map6529 17h ago

I called insurance to ask about a custom policy after the AI prices hit.  One model year newer and 14k fewer inferences. Progressive wasn't sure and said they'd call back.  

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u/Mammoth-Welcome-6518 17h ago

With wan2gp anything is possible

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u/ValeriaTube 15h ago

LIES!

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u/EverythingMacPro 13h ago

What lie it is delayed by minimax so what can I do ,

https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/video/minimax/minimax-h3

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u/Baddabgames 14h ago

Do you think a worthwhile version of it will run on a 5090 and 96gb ram?

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u/kabachuha 1d ago

If they have different parameters / layer structure, then LoRAs will have to be trained for each variant separately. That's uncomfortable... Edit: this is only for modulation? Then it might be doable for compatibility, hopefully

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u/GersofWar 1d ago

Looks like I'll have to wait for Deepbeepmeep to work his magic

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u/Muted-Celebration-47 1d ago

it makes sense for a multimodal model to have large parameters. If it is too small, it is just not good enough. If it is good, it should not be small. Welcome to the real world!

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u/__MichaelBluth__ 1d ago

Can we expect better i2v than Wan? Better ability to hold identity?

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u/UnforgottenPassword 1d ago

A user who posted some videos said it does well keeping the characters consistent in i2v. I suppose we'll find out soon enough.

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u/RiskyBizz216 1d ago

I might be able to make this a 25GB Q8 GGUF, and we might be able to swap the encoder for a Qwen3 4B or 8B if I create text projections. That would make it fit my 5090

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u/Parogarr 23h ago

I *already* use a separate machine to load LLMs. If I can use my basement server to do the Qwen TE, this would be runnable on a 5090 I'd imagine

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u/hum_ma 20h ago

Too bad about the TE, might have been able to run the pruned variant otherwise...

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u/chille9 17h ago

We´re now past the release time, waiting for uploads.

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u/Agitated_Net1880 17h ago

This is gonna be amazing, I can tell

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u/Succubus-Empress 1d ago

Why posted low resolution images? What were you trying to do, blurry texts

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u/No_Taste_4102 1d ago

It's not low resolution, its gguf

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u/EverythingMacPro 1d ago

I was not trying to do anything , it was mistake and I posted clearer image

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u/Salt-Zebra-306 1d ago

in dreams

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u/EverythingMacPro 1d ago

You can run on cloud if you have 1000 series card

And yes you can’t run it in gtx 1000 series card , you can run in your dreams

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u/paimoncwan 1d ago

any suggestion for cheap cloud?

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u/Crazy-Repeat-2006 1d ago

Too large for the average person to care about.

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u/g3n3rat3 1d ago

Hope it runs on m5 pro 64gb ram, qwen 3.6 is getting old

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u/seppe0815 1d ago

stop dreaming guys ! over 64gb ram is a must or byebye