Qwen releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo on Hugging Face: a faster image model that needs 8 steps instead of 40
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Image generation is getting faster, and so easier to run on your own hardware.
The Qwen team has published a faster version, Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, on Hugging Face: the number of denoising steps is cut from 40 to 8. According to Habr, on an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU a 1024×1536 image is produced in 6.9 seconds instead of 35 — roughly five times faster. The model supports editing, multiple references, edits to individual elements, RGBA transparency, text-heavy posters and interface layouts. According to the same source, the images are less detailed and the model handles complex prompts worse than the base model, so it suits drafts and exploring composition; the model card lists the license as "other."
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