diff --git a/comfy/sd.py b/comfy/sd.py
index 8c056e4e..220637a0 100644
--- a/comfy/sd.py
+++ b/comfy/sd.py
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ class CLIP:
         return self.patcher.get_key_patches()
 
 class VAE:
-    def __init__(self, sd=None, device=None, config=None):
+    def __init__(self, sd=None, device=None, config=None, dtype=None):
         if 'decoder.up_blocks.0.resnets.0.norm1.weight' in sd.keys(): #diffusers format
             sd = diffusers_convert.convert_vae_state_dict(sd)
 
@@ -188,7 +188,9 @@ class VAE:
             device = model_management.vae_device()
         self.device = device
         offload_device = model_management.vae_offload_device()
-        self.vae_dtype = model_management.vae_dtype()
+        if dtype is None:
+            dtype = model_management.vae_dtype()
+        self.vae_dtype = dtype
         self.first_stage_model.to(self.vae_dtype)
         self.output_device = model_management.intermediate_device()