What you need to run Z-Image Turbo 6B

About Z-Image Turbo 6B

Z-Image Turbo 6B is an image generation model from Tongyi. Great photo-real scenes in a few steps. Weak at writing text in images. Running it locally needs about 16 GB of memory.

Smallest Mac that runs it

The least memory you need, by Apple chip:

• M1: does not fit
• M1 Pro: from 32 GB
• M1 Max: from 32 GB
• M1 Ultra: from 64 GB
• M2: from 24 GB
• M2 Pro: from 32 GB
• M2 Max: from 32 GB
• M2 Ultra: from 64 GB
• M3: from 24 GB
• M3 Pro: from 36 GB
• M3 Max: from 36 GB
• M3 Ultra: from 96 GB
• M4: from 24 GB
• M4 Pro: from 24 GB
• M4 Max: from 36 GB
• M5: from 24 GB
• M5 Pro: from 24 GB
• M5 Max: from 36 GB

Graphics cards

Runs well on: RTX 3090, RTX 4090, RTX 5090, Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Runs slowly with help from system RAM on: RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, RTX 4070 Ti Super, RTX 4080 / 4080 Super, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, Radeon RX 7800 XT, Radeon RX 9070 XT.

Hardware to run it

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• Smallest Mac: M5 Pro with 24 GB. See it on Amazon
• Smallest graphics card: RTX 3090 (24 GB). See it on Amazon
• Storage: image, video and voice models are large, and most people end up keeping several. A fast external SSD keeps your main drive free. See SSDs on Amazon

Lighter and heavier alternatives

• Stable Diffusion XL: needs about 8 GB, a lighter choice. Classic image model with thousands of community styles.
• FLUX.2 klein 4B: needs about 10 GB, a lighter choice. Sharp, modern images and photo editing from a small model.

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