u/redpandafire

I recently got a free eGPU cage that connects via oculink cable. connected, fresh installed drivers and both GPU are detected and working. 16GB and 12GB cards. It doesn’t seem to help in compfy?

Image gen was never an issue. Video is where I wanted improvements. there is no noticeable improvement.

1. you can move text encoder to GPU 1
2. Comfyui still caches about 40% of the model into shared memory
3. Even using an 8GB quant, fully in memory, the generation doesnt go any faster.

for reference it’s about 32 sec/it on my 4080 super. i9-14700KF, 64GB DDR5, eGPU is a 3080ti. So basically it saved the CPU from doing text encoding and that’s entirely it. yes you can move vae to it too but Wan2.1 vae which is what I’m testing is a mere 200-300mb.

Also Crystools broke and I have to stop using a specific SVI flow. feels like going back to square one.

to be clear, i think all inflation above 2% is bad. but I’ve noticed a strange trend in reddit comments. a lot of people say they don’t care if gas is a little more expensive, it doesn’t bother them. But when the same inflation is on groceries, the vast majority of people agree it is affecting them.

for example, every comment agrees on the sentiment that $100 buys you less groceries today than five years ago.

but the comment that $100 buys you less gas is controversial. Some say, so what? and rationalize it in new units outside pure dollars. Ive seen this comment “I paid 4 cents per mile, so what if I pay 10 cents a mile, big deal”. lots of upvotes.

are more people just less price sensitive to gas? even though energy will impact food in a couple months, it just doesn’t register as a headline to exhale and breathe easy. If anything, when gas goes up, everything goes up, it’s an inbound crisis.