Ref2VA + Pika flex matches Minimax H3 image quality at 1024px, skipping the 20GB checkpoint
devdef · reddit · 2026-11-12
Reddit user devdef compared Minimax H3's standalone 20GB image checkpoint against a ref2va + Pika flex workflow at 1024px: results are close, with single-frame inference at 6.36s median vs H3's 3.14s, and similar VRAM (23.31 GiB vs 20.43 GiB). Conclusion: no need for the standalone H3 image checkpoint — ref2va + flex with six-step Euler/simple sampling covers t2i, edit, replace, combine, and inpaint; single frame uses an experimental manual-latent path, the standard Ref2VA node needs 5+ frames, and no video VAE or output-head swaps are required.
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