Swapping 32B for 4B Encoder Drops MiniMax H3 VRAM to 5GB
petewoodbridge · x · 2026-08-10
NicoLab28 released ClipProj-MiniMax-H3 on Hugging Face, replacing MiniMax H3's massive 32B text encoder with a tiny 4B one (Qwen3-VL-4B).
This optimization drastically cuts VRAM usage from 16GB down to 5.2GB while maintaining the same generation quality, making it highly accessible for low-end ComfyUI setups.
Related event: Extreme Compression: Swapping 32B Encoder for 4B in MiniMax H3(3 posts)→
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