diff --git a/comfy/ldm/modules/diffusionmodules/model.py b/comfy/ldm/modules/diffusionmodules/model.py
index 05caf731..91e7d60e 100644
--- a/comfy/ldm/modules/diffusionmodules/model.py
+++ b/comfy/ldm/modules/diffusionmodules/model.py
@@ -146,6 +146,41 @@ class ResnetBlock(nn.Module):
 
         return x+h
 
+def slice_attention(q, k, v):
+    r1 = torch.zeros_like(k, device=q.device)
+    scale = (int(q.shape[-1])**(-0.5))
+
+    mem_free_total = model_management.get_free_memory(q.device)
+
+    gb = 1024 ** 3
+    tensor_size = q.shape[0] * q.shape[1] * k.shape[2] * q.element_size()
+    modifier = 3 if q.element_size() == 2 else 2.5
+    mem_required = tensor_size * modifier
+    steps = 1
+
+    if mem_required > mem_free_total:
+        steps = 2**(math.ceil(math.log(mem_required / mem_free_total, 2)))
+
+    while True:
+        try:
+            slice_size = q.shape[1] // steps if (q.shape[1] % steps) == 0 else q.shape[1]
+            for i in range(0, q.shape[1], slice_size):
+                end = i + slice_size
+                s1 = torch.bmm(q[:, i:end], k) * scale
+
+                s2 = torch.nn.functional.softmax(s1, dim=2).permute(0,2,1)
+                del s1
+
+                r1[:, :, i:end] = torch.bmm(v, s2)
+                del s2
+            break
+        except model_management.OOM_EXCEPTION as e:
+            steps *= 2
+            if steps > 128:
+                raise e
+            print("out of memory error, increasing steps and trying again", steps)
+
+    return r1
 
 class AttnBlock(nn.Module):
     def __init__(self, in_channels):
@@ -183,48 +218,15 @@ class AttnBlock(nn.Module):
 
         # compute attention
         b,c,h,w = q.shape
-        scale = (int(c)**(-0.5))
 
         q = q.reshape(b,c,h*w)
         q = q.permute(0,2,1)   # b,hw,c
         k = k.reshape(b,c,h*w) # b,c,hw
         v = v.reshape(b,c,h*w)
 
-        r1 = torch.zeros_like(k, device=q.device)
-
-        mem_free_total = model_management.get_free_memory(q.device)
-
-        gb = 1024 ** 3
-        tensor_size = q.shape[0] * q.shape[1] * k.shape[2] * q.element_size()
-        modifier = 3 if q.element_size() == 2 else 2.5
-        mem_required = tensor_size * modifier
-        steps = 1
-
-        if mem_required > mem_free_total:
-            steps = 2**(math.ceil(math.log(mem_required / mem_free_total, 2)))
-
-        while True:
-            try:
-                slice_size = q.shape[1] // steps if (q.shape[1] % steps) == 0 else q.shape[1]
-                for i in range(0, q.shape[1], slice_size):
-                    end = i + slice_size
-                    s1 = torch.bmm(q[:, i:end], k) * scale
-
-                    s2 = torch.nn.functional.softmax(s1, dim=2).permute(0,2,1)
-                    del s1
-
-                    r1[:, :, i:end] = torch.bmm(v, s2)
-                    del s2
-                break
-            except model_management.OOM_EXCEPTION as e:
-                steps *= 2
-                if steps > 128:
-                    raise e
-                print("out of memory error, increasing steps and trying again", steps)
-
+        r1 = slice_attention(q, k, v)
         h_ = r1.reshape(b,c,h,w)
         del r1
-
         h_ = self.proj_out(h_)
 
         return x+h_
@@ -335,9 +337,14 @@ class MemoryEfficientAttnBlockPytorch(nn.Module):
             lambda t: t.view(B, 1, C, -1).transpose(2, 3).contiguous(),
             (q, k, v),
         )
-        out = torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v, attn_mask=None, dropout_p=0.0, is_causal=False)
 
-        out = out.transpose(2, 3).reshape(B, C, H, W)
+        try:
+            out = torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v, attn_mask=None, dropout_p=0.0, is_causal=False)
+            out = out.transpose(2, 3).reshape(B, C, H, W)
+        except model_management.OOM_EXCEPTION as e:
+            print("scaled_dot_product_attention OOMed: switched to slice attention")
+            out = slice_attention(q.view(B, -1, C), k.view(B, -1, C).transpose(1, 2), v.view(B, -1, C).transpose(1, 2)).reshape(B, C, H, W)
+
         out = self.proj_out(out)
         return x+out