FLUX.2 [klein] 9B on Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB)

Can the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB) run FLUX.2 [klein] 9B?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. FLUX.2 [klein] 9B needs about 4.3 GB even at Q4 GGUF; the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB) has 2.0 GB usable.

Download FLUX.2 [klein] 9B

Recommended: q4_gguf. Every other precision has its own download link in the table below.

Quantized files · GGUF for ComfyUI

Smaller GGUF versions for ComfyUI (with the ComfyUI-GGUF node). No sign-in needed; the model’s license still applies.

Download the q4_gguf (Q4_K_S) file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/FLUX.2-klein-9B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Black Forest Labs, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers, Diffusers or ComfyUI.

huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B (opens in a new tab)

Free Hugging Face account needed: accept the license on the model page and the download starts right away.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Black Forest Labs. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/black-forest-labs/flux2 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux2

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q4 GGUF, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Won't run: How well it runs on the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	10.5 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of the NAS’s memory that models can use (the rest stays with the NAS system and its storage services); fewer when it goes past that limit.	0.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	0.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	0.0 / 15
Match score	10.5 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

Every precision on the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	8.8 GB	2.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	5.6 GB	2.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`Q8 GGUF`	5.8 GB	2.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4 GGUF`	4.3 GB	2.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)

Hardware that can run it

84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Max (64 GB) FP16 · 11 s · Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q8 GGUF · 1.7 s · Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX FP8 · 1.8 s · Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 FP8 · 3.0 s · Runs great
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FP8 · 1.6 s · Runs great
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M1 Max (64 GB) FP16 · 16 s · Runs well

Models that do run on the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB)

39Basic quality (D) · 39 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SDXL Turbo FP8 · 29 s
28Basic quality (D) · 28 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 50/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SD Turbo FP16 · 17 s
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 48/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Realistic Vision V5.1 FP16 · 4.3 min
40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 47/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. DreamShaper 8 FP16 · 4.3 min
30Basic quality (D) · 30 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LCM DreamShaper v7 FP16 · 54 s

Quick answers

How much memory does FLUX.2 [klein] 9B need on the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS 4GB?

Even at Q4 GGUF it needs about 4.3 GB; the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS 4GB has 2.0 GB usable.

What can the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS 4GB run instead?

SDXL Turbo, SD Turbo and Realistic Vision V5.1 run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run FLUX.2 [klein] 9B?

M4 Max 64GB, RTX 5090 32GB and RX 7900 XTX 24GB run it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.