HiDream-I1 Dev on Intel Atom C2538 NAS (8 GB)

Can the Intel Atom C2538 NAS (8 GB) run HiDream-I1 Dev?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. HiDream-I1 Dev needs about 6.2 GB even at NF4; the Intel Atom C2538 NAS (8 GB) has 5.2 GB usable.

Download HiDream-I1 Dev

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.

huggingface.co/city96/HiDream-I1-Dev-gguf (opens in a new tab)

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from HiDream.ai, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers, Diffusers or ComfyUI.

huggingface.co/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1-Dev (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from HiDream.ai. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1

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

How it’s rated

Quality 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at NF4, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at NF4, 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 Atom C2538 NAS (8 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.	10.0 / 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	10.0 / 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 Atom C2538 NAS (8 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	14.8 GB	5.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	8.8 GB	5.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`Q8 GGUF`	9.3 GB	5.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4 GGUF`	6.5 GB	5.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	74Great quality (A) · 74 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)
`NF4`	6.2 GB	5.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at NF4, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Hardware that can run it

74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at NF4, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 NF4 · 16 s · Runs well
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (128 GB) FP16 · 33 s · Runs well
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB) FP16 · 37 s · Runs well
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell FP8 · 11 s · Runs great
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FP8 · 16 s · Runs well (encoder in RAM)
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GB10 (128 GB) FP16 · 35 s · Runs well

Models that do run on the Intel Atom C2538 NAS (8 GB)

90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image Klein Q8 GGUF · 1.6 h
72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Q4 GGUF · 14.4 min
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image Turbo FP8 · 33.4 min
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. ERNIE-Image Q4 GGUF · 6.5 h
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MOSS-Image SFT Q8 GGUF · 4.0 h

Quick answers

How much memory does HiDream-I1 Dev need on the Intel Atom C2538 NAS 8GB?

Even at NF4 it needs about 6.2 GB; the Intel Atom C2538 NAS 8GB has 5.2 GB usable.

What can the Intel Atom C2538 NAS 8GB run instead?

FLUX 3 Image Klein, FLUX.2 [klein] 4B and Z-Image Turbo run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run HiDream-I1 Dev?

RTX 5090 32GB, AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB and NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) 128GB 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.