diff --git a/comfy/ldm/wan/model.py b/comfy/ldm/wan/model.py
index 63472ada2..67dcf8f1e 100644
--- a/comfy/ldm/wan/model.py
+++ b/comfy/ldm/wan/model.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from einops import rearrange
 
 from comfy.ldm.modules.attention import optimized_attention
 from comfy.ldm.flux.layers import EmbedND
-from comfy.ldm.flux.math import apply_rope
+from comfy.ldm.flux.math import apply_rope1
 import comfy.ldm.common_dit
 import comfy.model_management
 import comfy.patcher_extension
@@ -60,20 +60,24 @@ class WanSelfAttention(nn.Module):
         """
         b, s, n, d = *x.shape[:2], self.num_heads, self.head_dim
 
-        # query, key, value function
-        def qkv_fn(x):
+        def qkv_fn_q(x):
             q = self.norm_q(self.q(x)).view(b, s, n, d)
-            k = self.norm_k(self.k(x)).view(b, s, n, d)
-            v = self.v(x).view(b, s, n * d)
-            return q, k, v
+            return apply_rope1(q, freqs)
 
-        q, k, v = qkv_fn(x)
-        q, k = apply_rope(q, k, freqs)
+        def qkv_fn_k(x):
+            k = self.norm_k(self.k(x)).view(b, s, n, d)
+            return apply_rope1(k, freqs)
+
+        #These two are VRAM hogs, so we want to do all of q computation and
+        #have pytorch garbage collect the intermediates on the sub function
+        #return before we touch k
+        q = qkv_fn_q(x)
+        k = qkv_fn_k(x)
 
         x = optimized_attention(
             q.view(b, s, n * d),
             k.view(b, s, n * d),
-            v,
+            self.v(x).view(b, s, n * d),
             heads=self.num_heads,
             transformer_options=transformer_options,
         )