diff --git a/comfy/ops.py b/comfy/ops.py
index 640622fd1854..93b228ce4d41 100644
--- a/comfy/ops.py
+++ b/comfy/ops.py
@@ -599,6 +599,7 @@ def _load_from_state_dict(self, state_dict, prefix, local_metadata,
                     'block_size': qconfig.get("group_size", None),
                 }
                 if layout_params['scale'] is not None:
+                    layout_params['scale'] = layout_params['scale'].to(device=device)
                     manually_loaded_keys.append(weight_scale_key)
 
                 self.weight = torch.nn.Parameter(
@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ def _load_from_state_dict(self, state_dict, prefix, local_metadata,
                     _v = state_dict.pop(param_key, None)
                     if _v is None:
                         continue
-                    setattr(self, param_name, torch.nn.Parameter(_v.to(device=device), requires_grad=False))
+                    self.register_buffer(param_name, _v.to(device=device))
                     manually_loaded_keys.append(param_key)
 
             super()._load_from_state_dict(state_dict, prefix, local_metadata, strict, missing_keys, unexpected_keys, error_msgs)
diff --git a/comfy/quant_ops.py b/comfy/quant_ops.py
index 1d058bece5a7..d8354cd43411 100644
--- a/comfy/quant_ops.py
+++ b/comfy/quant_ops.py
@@ -337,6 +337,16 @@ def generic_copy_(func, args, kwargs):
         return qt_dest
     return func(*args, **kwargs)
 
+@register_generic_util(torch.ops.aten.to.dtype)
+def generic_to_dtype(func, args, kwargs):
+    """Handle .to(dtype) calls - dtype conversion only."""
+    src = args[0]
+    if isinstance(src, QuantizedTensor):
+        # For dtype-only conversion, just change the orig_dtype, no real cast is needed
+        target_dtype = args[1] if len(args) > 1 else kwargs.get('dtype')
+        src._layout_params["orig_dtype"] = target_dtype
+        return src
+    return func(*args, **kwargs)
 
 @register_generic_util(torch.ops.aten._has_compatible_shallow_copy_type.default)
 def generic_has_compatible_shallow_copy_type(func, args, kwargs):
@@ -383,10 +393,11 @@ def quantize(cls, tensor, scale=None, dtype=torch.float8_e4m3fn):
             scale = torch.tensor(scale)
         scale = scale.to(device=tensor.device, dtype=torch.float32)
 
-        tensor_scaled = tensor * (1.0 / scale).to(tensor.dtype)
+        tensor_fp32 = tensor.to(torch.float32)
+        tensor_scaled = tensor_fp32 * (1.0 / scale)
         # TODO: uncomment this if it's actually needed because the clamp has a small performance penality'
-        # lp_amax = torch.finfo(dtype).max
-        # torch.clamp(tensor_scaled, min=-lp_amax, max=lp_amax, out=tensor_scaled)
+        lp_amax = torch.finfo(dtype).max
+        torch.clamp(tensor_scaled, min=-lp_amax, max=lp_amax, out=tensor_scaled)
         qdata = tensor_scaled.to(dtype, memory_format=torch.contiguous_format)
 
         layout_params = {
diff --git a/comfy/sd.py b/comfy/sd.py
index dc0905ada4af..d7a8e07c761b 100644
--- a/comfy/sd.py
+++ b/comfy/sd.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import yaml
 import math
 import os
+import json
 
 import comfy.utils
 
@@ -917,7 +918,20 @@ class CLIPType(Enum):
 def load_clip(ckpt_paths, embedding_directory=None, clip_type=CLIPType.STABLE_DIFFUSION, model_options={}):
     clip_data = []
     for p in ckpt_paths:
-        clip_data.append(comfy.utils.load_torch_file(p, safe_load=True))
+        clip_data.append(comfy.utils.load_torch_file(p, safe_load=True, return_metadata=True))
+        if type(clip_data[-1]) == tuple:
+            model, metadata = clip_data.pop()
+            if metadata is not None and "_quantization_metadata" in metadata:
+                try:
+                    quant_metadata = metadata.pop("_quantization_metadata")
+                    quant_metadata = json.loads(quant_metadata)
+                    if "layers" in quant_metadata:
+                        layer_quant_config = quant_metadata["layers"]
+                        model_options["layer_quant_config"] = layer_quant_config
+                        logging.info(f"Detected quantized text encoder: {len(layer_quant_config)} layers with quantization")
+                except Exception as e:
+                    logging.warning(f"Failed to parse quantization metadata: {e}")
+            clip_data.append(model)
     return load_text_encoder_state_dicts(clip_data, embedding_directory=embedding_directory, clip_type=clip_type, model_options=model_options)
 
 
diff --git a/comfy/sd1_clip.py b/comfy/sd1_clip.py
index 3066de2d7a50..a04ba74b5582 100644
--- a/comfy/sd1_clip.py
+++ b/comfy/sd1_clip.py
@@ -109,13 +109,22 @@ def __init__(self, device="cpu", max_length=77,
 
         operations = model_options.get("custom_operations", None)
         scaled_fp8 = None
+        layer_quant_config = model_options.get("layer_quant_config", None)
 
         if operations is None:
-            scaled_fp8 = model_options.get("scaled_fp8", None)
-            if scaled_fp8 is not None:
-                operations = comfy.ops.scaled_fp8_ops(fp8_matrix_mult=False, override_dtype=scaled_fp8)
+            # Use MixedPrecisionOps if layer_quant_config is present (for FP8 text encoders)
+            if layer_quant_config is not None:
+                operations = comfy.ops.MixedPrecisionOps
+                comfy.ops.MixedPrecisionOps._layer_quant_config = layer_quant_config
+                comfy.ops.MixedPrecisionOps._compute_dtype = dtype
+                logging.info(f"Using MixedPrecisionOps for text encoder: {len(layer_quant_config)} quantized layers")
             else:
-                operations = comfy.ops.manual_cast
+                # Fallback to scaled_fp8_ops for backward compatibility
+                scaled_fp8 = model_options.get("scaled_fp8", None)
+                if scaled_fp8 is not None:
+                    operations = comfy.ops.scaled_fp8_ops(fp8_matrix_mult=False, override_dtype=scaled_fp8)
+                else:
+                    operations = comfy.ops.manual_cast
 
         self.operations = operations
         self.transformer = model_class(config, dtype, device, self.operations)