ComfyUI nodes load INT8-quantized SAM3/3.1 into VRAM with Tensor Core speed
Zestyclose_Bake3680 · reddit · 2026-08-30
The open-source ComfyUI-HSWQ-Loader-and-Tools adds an HSWQ SAM3 Loader (ConvRot INT8) and HSWQ SAM3 Detect node, keeping ConvRot/TensorWise INT8-quantized Segment Anything 3/3.1 weights resident in VRAM at 8-bit precision to cut memory usage.
- Execution uses comfykitchen's fast int8linear GEMM kernel with online activation rotation for ConvRot layers.
- Unaligned layers (K not a multiple of 4, e.g. boxRPBembedx) automatically fall back to float, while heavy backbone/transformer blocks run accelerated INT8 Tensor Core math.
- Detect supports text conditioning, bboxes, point prompts as JSON, thresholds, and refinement iterations, outputting masks and bboxes.
- Standard FP16 checkpoints load unchanged with identical results; example workflows included in the repo.
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