comfyui-workflows/optimized/notes/minimax.md

MiniMax Notes

Current default assumptions

• MiniMax H3 is promising, but brute-force paths are too heavy to be the first bet on a 3070.
• Speed-first and low-VRAM community workflows matter more than official purity for the first real test.

Strong current source workflows

• models/minimax/minimax-h3-official-t2v/
• models/minimax/minimax-h3-official-i2v/
• models/minimax/minimax-h3-turbo-lora-community/
• models/minimax/minimax-h3-int8-r2v-community/

Strong current heuristics

• Prefer Turbo LoRA for the first text-to-video attempt.
• Prefer INT8-based community workflows for reference-to-video exploration.
• Keep attention and memory-efficiency helpers if they are already integrated and well documented.

Current weak areas

• No proof yet that MiniMax is truly practical on Chris's box.
• Custom-node stack is more fragile than the current flux2klein path.

Best current optimization direction

• Keep optimized/text-to-video/minimax-h3-3070-turbo-master/ as the first MiniMax default.
• Keep the INT8 reference-video workflow as the next donor for future low-VRAM optimization.

What needs Monday proof

• whether the Turbo LoRA workflow is just technically possible or actually usable
• whether the source-recommended 8-step path holds up in quality
• whether MiniMax feels like a real challenger to LTX locally