Minimax H3 OOM on RTX 5090? Local Video Generation Hits VRAM Wall

Tepelstrikje · reddit · 2026-08-06

A user with an RTX 5090 reported running into severe Out of Memory (OOM) errors when trying to run the Minimax H3 video generation model locally. Despite using a 21GB quantized version and unloading the Qwen model early in the workflow, they couldn't generate even an 8-second video at a very low resolution (960x544).

The user tried multiple VRAM optimization tricks like sage-attention, Sol-Attn sparse attention, and easycache, but the model still failed. This contradicts social media hype about the model running smoothly on lower-end cards like the 3060Ti, sparking a discussion about the real hardware barriers for local video generation.

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