AI & Creative Tools
Qwen-Image-2.1 Now Runs on an 8GB Card, and the Quantisers Got There Before the Ecosystem Did
Qwen-Image-2.1 shipped on September 20 as a ~14.2GB BF16 diffusion model. By September 23, community GGUF quantisations had it running in ComfyUI on cards with as little as 8GB of VRAM — and download data shows the quantised repos, not the official weights, are where the adoption is happening.