comfyui-workflows/optimized/notes/reviews/2026-08-08-first-pass.md

Optimization Review 2026-08-08

Scope

First manual optimization pass before the Sunday cadence has enough historical material to build from.

Created masters

• optimized/text-to-image/zimage-turbo-3070-fast-start/
• optimized/image-edit/zimage-turbo-3070-inpaint-start/
• optimized/image-edit/flux2klein-9b-fp8-edit-master/
• optimized/image-to-video/ltx23-3070-simple-master/
• optimized/text-to-video/minimax-h3-3070-turbo-master/

Source workflows used

• models/zimage/z-image-turbo-official-example/
• models/zimage/z-image-turbo-inpainting-community/
• models/flux2klein/image-edit-9b-distilled/
• models/ltx/ltx23-i2v-t2v-simple-single-pass/
• models/minimax/minimax-h3-turbo-lora-community/

What was optimized in this pass

• Chose low-complexity or speed-first baselines instead of heavier graphs.
• Aligned flux2klein with Chris's 9B fp8 preference.
• Treated LTX and MiniMax as "prove viability first" families.
• Added durable notes so future passes can build on judgments instead of re-reading everything.

What was deliberately not done

• no graph surgery without testing
• no blind node removal
• no fake "one workflow to rule them all" claims
• no promotion of first-last-frame or INT8 reference-video paths to default status yet

Monday proof needed

• whether the two Z-Image masters are actually lighter and pleasant to use
• whether flux2klein 9B distilled behaves well enough for edit/outpaint work
• whether the LTX simple master is viable on a 3070
• whether MiniMax Turbo is practically usable or still too tight