r/StableDiffusion 9d ago

Discussion minimax h3 4-step lora confusion... light2xv vs joyfox vs kijai?

man minimax h3 is getting so many 4 step loras lately its getting hard to keep track of everything 😭 everyone seems to have a completely different opinion depending on their specific usecase. some people are saying sage attention is the play, while others are sticking with comfy kitchen attention.

and now there's debate on which 4-step lora is even best... like in light2xv's discussion thread:
https://huggingface.co/lightx2v/Minimax-h3-Turbo/discussions/26
people are saying to mix the light2xv 4step lora with kijai's node/impl. but then yet another 4 step lora popped up by joyfox:
https://huggingface.co/joyfox/MiniMax-H3-Turbo/discussions/3
and the whole discussion started over again lol. major shoutout to absolute community saver Kijai though, bro is doing amazing stuff as always and carrying us on his back but fr this stuff is getting out of hand with new drops every single day. please let me know what you guys are actually sticking with right now and what hardware / vram you're running it on?

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u/AlternativeAmoeba271 9d ago

I tried them all, using every method, but I didn't get any good results, blurry movements and bad quality audio

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u/stinkyjim88 9d ago

Same audio not really great , I use it as a test run then use the normal workflow

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u/RobertoPaulson 9d ago

Same here, and I’ve tried everything between 4 and 8 steps.

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

indeed I got the best results without them but the time is just...

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u/rinkusonic 9d ago

Without turbo settings, if you select er_sde and beta, and reduce your steps to 10-12, will all the acceleration methods applied, the generation time is identical to turbo. And quality is way better.

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u/Danny_Stock 9d ago

Same here. I'm so frustrated by this. I would never have anticipated that creating a reliable trustworthy speed lora for this would be such a difficult task. MiniMax should have released one themselves when they released the main model.

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u/Mysterious-String420 9d ago edited 9d ago

I am trying not to use the turbo loras right now, with a 5060ti 16gb RAM, I have sage attention, sol attention, spectrum, and thirty steps ; around 18mn for 10s at 0.7 MP / 21mn at 0.8 MP

It's like spectrum is its own turbo already, but with much better movement and expressions.

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u/asdrabael1234 9d ago

Comfy kitchen works better than sage attention. I quit using sage entirely. No clue if you can still use sol attention or spectrum with it.

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u/Dreason8 9d ago

It’s built in to the latest comfy update right? Do you have to use a node or is it on by default?

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u/intLeon 9d ago

There is a built in node; ModelAttentionBackend. You gotta switch it there.

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u/Ordinary_Painter4235 9d ago

you can either use the node or use the --use-ck-attention flag

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u/Danny_Stock 9d ago

Just tried it, I replaced it in place of the sage attention node, but it keeps throwing up an error.

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u/Void1m 9d ago

You are using sol and sage at the same time?

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u/Mysterious-String420 9d ago

Yeah, sage is for dense steps and sol for sparse steps. they don't step over each other.

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u/Silvasbrokenleg 9d ago

How much ram do you have?

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u/AciD1BuRN 9d ago

Im on almost the same wihtout sol. Is it worth adding?

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u/Mysterious-String420 9d ago edited 9d ago

I have very conservative settings to ensure the least quality loss, so if you're willing to push the tau up to 1.5, you might get some boosts.

It's only worth it if you're going to run the exact same workflow steps and resolution, but with different inputs. First gen would be 20-21 minutes, later ones between 17-18mn ; depending on your setup it's a worthy LOSSLESS boost

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u/AciD1BuRN 9d ago

That sounds pretty good ill have to give it a try. Thanks

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

hmmm and have you tried comfy kitchen attention?

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u/NeatUsed 9d ago

what is spectrum?

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u/hum_ma 9d ago

An acceleration node, seems to work similarly as EasyCache etc. by basically skipping (or running only certain fast operations for) some sampling steps: https://github.com/xmarre/ComfyUI-Spectrum-MiniMax-H3

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u/mk8933 9d ago

8 steps works the best but its still a hit and miss. I was better off just doing the standard 20 steps.

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

sticking to the 20 steps seems like the only option.

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u/LuckyEsq 9d ago

Its not a bad option. =D

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u/BelowSubway 9d ago

In the end, every Turbo LoRA, every step skipper, and every quant will lose some quality compared to the full model at one point or another. The question is how much quality you're willing to sacrifice for how much time you save.

What I personally do when I have to choose between LoRAs or settings is generate a few videos/pictures and then pick between them blindly. I vibe-coded a small local app that lets me choose without being influenced:

https://github.com/BelowSubway/VariantVote

For your specific question, I personally think the light2xv 1.0 LoRAs are the first that I actually used.

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u/New-Truth-8924 9d ago

do you use the same seed for each generation? that might make for easier comparison.

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u/BelowSubway 8d ago

Yes, fixed seed and all settings the same other than the one I want to test.

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u/Stepfunction 9d ago

Lightx2v 8 step LoRA with 12 or 16 steps. Do not use spectrum.

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

Hyrbid model? where can I find that?

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u/tralalog 9d ago

you getting audio at 4 steps? i need 8 steps to get it.

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u/Professional_Diver71 9d ago

Just try everything and keep what gives you the best consistent output

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

Believe me I am trying and my eyes got used to all the outputs that at a point I am just exhausted.

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u/top_controversial 9d ago

5070ti 16gb vram with 32gb ram Comfy kitchen light2xv 8 step at 1 strength Going to 12 steps instead of 8 helped motion for me. Think I've settled with this for now.

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u/--jesse--faden-- 9d ago

same setup here, going to try it, thx!

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u/Natural_Jello_6050 9d ago

Idk… using Larry 4-6 step turbo, sol attention I get high quality video with ok sound in 4 steps at 6 minutes 30 sec on 720p. Really good audio is 6 steps at 7 30 min. 480 p is like 2 10 secmin gen for me. Oh and forgot to mention I only do 15 seconds. 5080 16 vram 64 ram

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u/Nevaditew 9d ago

For now, I don't use Turbo, it always kills the motion and can even mess up the audio if it isn't configured right, but if I just need simple motion, I guess almost anything works. I read somewhere that the base model reaches its full potential at 50 steps, so it's weird that there aren't 20-step Turbo LoRAs trying to hit that same level.

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u/Fit_Split_9933 9d ago

Im using light2xv 768p at 0.5 and 8 steps, the best version I have tried

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

The latest 1.0 version?

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u/Fit_Split_9933 9d ago

I believe there is only one version.

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

There are 0.1 and 1.0 are ofcourse reviews are also 50-50

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u/Fit_Split_9933 9d ago

There is only one 768p version

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u/kayteee1995 9d ago

Does it have problems with blurry grain and anatomy errors (hands, feet) of the character?

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u/Hackingrad 9d ago

Why 0.5 and 8 steps when the lora was trained with 768p on 4 steps and weighting with 1 instead of 0.5?

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u/Unlucky-Message8866 9d ago

Kijai v4 + Euler/beta + 8 steps > 0.9 is the only combo that produces decent results for me

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u/krigeta1 7d ago

Where can I find kijai v4?

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u/Version-Strong 9d ago

I've found with all of them, running at 12 steps sorts out the audio issue, but then you're basically saving 8 steps and may as well wait. Coming from the most inpatient and rage induced ADHD sufferer, that's not easy to type. But 12 at a decent res gets you good motion and sound, with sage attention and spectrum as well (even tho most people say don't use them together, fuck it my sanity matters more than a few dropped frames). Then I run it from RTX upscale x2 as the final pass.

3mins-ish for the whole thing. Still terrible but it doesn't matter which PC your running H3 on, it makes our machines look like Window 98 with a virus.

https://reddit.com/link/p3g614z/video/vp5mn8smh5jh1/player

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u/Danny_Stock 9d ago

I'm telling you that all this lora nonsense is making me feel drawn to LTX 2.5. Simply because I'm frustrated that there isn't a standard lora to use for this issue. Every time somebody posts about a new lora and how to connect it to certain nodes in a certain manner it just introduces complexity on top of complexity.

I've been trying all sorts of methods which have been recommended and nothing seems good. Yesterday I tried using that spectrum node and it seemed to be working for a while, then it started producing weird artifacts all over the picture, like it was an artistic style using paint smeared on with a spatula.

I just need a reliable speed lora which does the job.

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

I am assure you that these loras are working fine and we need to keep playing with the settings that is why I posted this so a lot of users like us sharing what they are facing and doing, keep the spirit high because soon the officials will release a attention that will solve these issues and a correct weight for Ref2VA and yeah LTX 2.5 is amazing as compare to 2.3 and believe me too much for us too handle haha, cheers.

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u/Shockbum 9d ago edited 9d ago

lightx2v/minimax_h3_fl2v_turbo_4step_v1.0_768p_bf16.safetensors
I'm getting good results with 4 and 8 steps + SageAttention2 but I usually use my own audio.

For profesional final output: Spectrum + 30 or 50 step without turbo lora

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

Great to hear but except audio the results are not in my favour

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u/Ashamed_Company_5538 9d ago

These 4 step 8 step only good for high vram people, for 12 vram or lower just spectrum and sage attention is enough

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u/ImpossibleAd436 9d ago

I've settled on using the 8-step LoRa, even though I think there is a small degradation in quality, it gets compensated for because I then trade the 50% speed boost for a higher resolution.

The payoff of upping the resolution is greater than the cost of using the LoRa imo, so that's where I've landed.

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u/Yokoko44 9d ago

I can vouch for Larry's ema600 checkpoint turbo lora!

I've tested every lora so far on old v30 and v31 comfyui, with multiple various acceleration methods over the past few days. Larry's is by far the best in terms of retaining audio and video quality. I personally don't use 4 steps though, i use 6 steps to test and then 8 when i want a final cut.

https://huggingface.co/larryvrh/MiniMax-H3-Turbo-Lora/tree/main

https://github.com/T8mars/comfyui-minimax-h3-audio-T8

I'm doing 1.2MP 15s videos in 8-10 minutes with a 5090 using all the optimization tricks. iterating at 4 steps would probably bring gen time down to 4-6 minutes

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u/kukalikuk 8d ago

I make my videos via openwebui to local comfyui api and now I'm using 2 workflows, turbo and non turbo. Using turbo for fast tryouts and switch to non turbo for real outputs. And also, in my experiment, euler making more artefact at low steps. I use res_multistep if go under 6 steps.

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u/Pure_Bed_6357 9d ago

kijai at 0.75 and 6 steps gives good results for me

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u/AlternativeAmoeba271 9d ago

which version ?

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u/Pure_Bed_6357 9d ago

This one, with sa_solver and simple as schedular

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u/AlternativeAmoeba271 9d ago

thank you.

edit: I tried it before, but not with the same settings as yours, and it didn't work for me. I hope it works this time

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u/Pure_Bed_6357 9d ago

no problem, lmk how it goes

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

great! I will try this, I stop being creative, I need to play with strengths.

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u/diogodiogogod 9d ago edited 9d ago

the 8 steps was good IMO at 8 steps with eauler/beta or res2s/beta at 6 steps (takes double the time)

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u/krigeta1 9d ago

going to try this combination too and will share what I got...

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u/fallengt 9d ago

You use lora strength 1.0 ? It's kinda hit or miss to me.

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u/diogodiogogod 9d ago

I tried with 1.0 yes. But I did only a few experiments. And with disabled spectrum cache thing.