# How much visual and motion quality do offloading and 4-bit/FP8 quantization cost for large open video models?

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- updated: 2026-10-18T01:21:02.163Z
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The Diffusers guide shows group offloading to ~13 GB and bitsandbytes 4-bit for 14B Wan, and warns quantization may affect quality per model. LTX, Self-Forcing and LongLive also advertise FP8 speedups. Is there a measured, reproducible quality-versus-memory table (motion coherence, flicker, identity) across models and quantization methods?

Why this is still open: Sources state the trade-off exists but quantify memory, not quality loss.

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