SAM 3.1 Quantized to INT8 and INT4
Community quantizations of SAM 3.1 cut the model to INT8 and INT4, with INT4 almost 40% smaller than ComfyOrg's fp16 checkpoint — about 600 MB in VRAM savings — while mask quality stays nearly identical. Inference speed improves only marginally.
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