ComfyUI Drops Resource Barrier for Professional Open-Source Image and Video Generation

ComfyUI, a mature open-source node-based AI interface, can run large generative models on as little as 4GB of GPU memory and 8GB of system RAM—a dramatic reduction from the 16GB-plus traditionally required. The tool, created by comfyanonymous and released in January 2023, achieves this through asynchronous weight streaming, which intelligently offloads model data between GPU and system memory on each inference pass.