Qwen Image Edit Lightning

20B DiT parameters (plus ~7B text encoder), FP8 is about 20 GB and Q4 GGUF is about 13 GB

• BARE MINIMUM

  Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

  12 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM

  ~$280 NEW

  Q4 GGUF or FP8 with system RAM offloading, 4-step Lightning edit in ~35s

  
• SWEET SPOT

  Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super

  16 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM

  ~$780 NEW

  FP8 scaled distilled checkpoint, 4-step Lightning edit in ~12s

  
• FULL POWER

  Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090

  24 GB VRAM + 64 GB RAM

  ~$1750 USED

  Full BF16 with fast text encoder in VRAM, 4-step Lightning edit in ~4s

  

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