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Qwen-Image 2.1 on 16 GB of VRAM, quantized to NF4: a real benchmark against FLUX
Community description: On a 16 GB RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo does not fit in bf16 (the pipeline is 32.5 GB)....
Dev.to | Oct 10, 2026 | Efrain Garay
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Speed: 8. 4 s per image for Qwen NF4 (8 steps) against 61 s for FLUX + LoRA (30 steps), median, 1344×768. Text in the image: 13 of 18 requested texts exact for Qwen NF4, 7 for FLUX. Memory: 11. 9 GiB over the card's baseline for Qwen NF4 (nvidia-smi), 13. 1 GiB for FLUX.
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