I've never had the need for image generation, but I feel tempted to try this anyway on my M4 :-)
generated this image on my m2 mac with 32gb of ram in about 38 seconds:
using:
https://github.com/filipstrand/mflux + schnell model
impressed... could replace my use of midjourney.
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Curious how fast it is, do you have an m4 max ?
A mere Pro
With 48GB RAM. The food benchmark takes 38 seconds, but towards the end it uses a bunch of swap. I have about 6 GB of other stuff eating my RAM and didn't try pruning that yet.
With quantize 8 it fits in memory and takes 33 seconds.
"Death Star construction" with the default 4 steps took a minute. And no audible fans. 
decent... im impressed that these few-step models work so well. the dev model takes like 20-25 diffusion iterations and is much slower... I haven't noticed a huge quality difference.
