Latent guides

Practical answers about running image generation on your own PC, built on figures measured with Latent. Each guide says what was measured and on which hardware.

• How much VRAM does Z-Image Turbo need?Z-Image Turbo peaked at 14.2 GB of VRAM and made a 1024 × 1024 frame in about 13 seconds on an RTX 5070 Ti. How to run it on 8 GB, and with no GPU.
• Running FLUX on an 8 GB GPUFLUX.2 klein 4B fits an 8 GB card as FP8 (6.2 GB). FLUX.3 klein needs 12.9 GB but streams through an 8 GB card in about a minute. Measured times and steps.
• Generating AI images without a GPUOn a Ryzen 7 7800X3D with no GPU, SANA-Sprint 1.6B made a 1024 × 1024 image in about 37 seconds using 11.9 GB of RAM. FLUX.2 klein 4B took about 3 minutes.
• Local AI image models comparedZ-Image Turbo, FLUX.3 klein, FLUX.2 klein 4B, Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo, SANA-Sprint 1.6B and Kromoss: measured VRAM, seconds per image on GPU, RAM, disk and CPU, and which allow commercial use.