HunyuanVideo: Tencent's Open-Source Video AI
Overview of HunyuanVideo – a powerful open-source text-to-video model from Tencent.
Table of Contents
01What Is HunyuanVideo?
HunyuanVideo is an open-source text-to-video model from Tencent. It offers impressive video quality with natural movements and good temporal coherence. The model is an interesting alternative to Wan 2.2 and offers complementary strengths in certain scenarios.
02Features and Strengths
HunyuanVideo stands out for the following points:
- Good temporal coherence: Objects and scenes remain consistent throughout the entire video length
- Natural movements: Especially with human movements and camera pans
- Flexible aspect ratio: Supports various resolutions and formats
- Open source: Freely available for non-commercial use
- ComfyUI integration: Usable in ComfyUI via custom nodes
03Hardware Requirements
HunyuanVideo is resource-intensive. Full precision requires at least 24 GB VRAM. With FP8 quantization, operation is possible from 16 GB VRAM. For acceptable generation times, an RTX 4090 or better is recommended.
04Comparison with Wan 2.2
Compared to Wan 2.2, HunyuanVideo offers partially better camera movements and scene coherence, while Wan 2.2 is more flexible in configuration and better integrated into ComfyUI. For most users, we recommend trying both models and choosing based on the use case.