🌟 The Perfect Trio: Best Quantization Options

1. 🔹 Best Small Model: Q2_K

• ⚡ Ultra-Fast inference speed

• 💾 Tiny Size: 8x smaller than original

• 💻 Perfect for low-resource devices

• 🔋 Ideal when speed > perfect accuracy

2. 🔸 Best All-Rounder: Q4_K_M

• ⚖️ Perfect Balance: size vs quality

• 🧠 Strong reasoning capabilities

• 👑 Community Favorite for daily use

• 🎯 Go-to choice for most applications!

3. 🔷 Premium Quality: Q8

• ✨ Nearly Identical to original model

• 🧩 Preserves complex reasoning abilities

• 🎨 Superior creative generation

• 💪 Best when quality is non-negotiable

🛠️ Complete Installation Guide

📁 Setup Structure

📂 ComfyUI/
├── 📂 models/
│   ├── 📂 diffusion_models/
│   │   ├── (basic)📄 SPEED_Q8.gguf 
│   ├── 📂 text_encoders/
│   │   ├── (basic)📄 clip_l.safetensors
│   │   ├── (option1)📄 t5xxl_fp16.safetensors
│   │   ├── (option2)📄 t5xxl_fp8_e4m3fn.safetensors
│   │   └── (option3)📄 t5xxl_fp8_e4m3fn_scaled.safetensors
│   ├── 📂 vae/
│   │   └── 📄 ae.safetensors

💎 Essential Components

This merged model offers a balanced solution for AI-driven image generation, emphasizing both speed and quality. Whether you're processing single images or large batches, it delivers high-quality visuals efficiently.

🔤 Text Encoders - The Brain Behind Natural Language Understanding

Note: You only need to choose ONE of the T5XXL options below based on your hardware capabilities

• clip_l.safetensors - Core understanding model

• T5XXL Options (choose only one):

  • t5xxl_fp16.safetensors - Highest quality, more demanding

  • t5xxl_fp8_e4m3fn.safetensors - Balanced performance

  • t5xxl_fp8_e4m3fn_scaled.safetensors - Optimized for speed

🎭 VAE - The Visual Artist

• ae.safetensors

🔮 Pro Workflows

• 🚀 Flux Advance: Advanced optimization

• 🔧 Simple Workflow: Quick setup - just download & install missing nodes

• 🧪 T5 GGUF: For T5-based models

👏 Special Thanks

Big thanks to city96 for pioneering the GGUF journey! 🙌

👨‍💻 Developer Information

This workflow guide was created by Abdallah Al-Swaiti:

• LinkedIn Profile

• GitHub

• Hugging Face

For additional tools and updates, check out the OllamaGemini Node: GitHub Repository