Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo on Intel Celeron N4505 NAS (16 GB)

Can the Intel Celeron N4505 NAS (16 GB) run Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo needs about 15.7 GB even at Q4 GGUF; the Intel Celeron N4505 NAS (16 GB) has 12.0 GB usable.

Download Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo

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/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

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

github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1

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

How it’s rated

Quality 82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (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 Celeron N4505 NAS (16 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.	11.2 / 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	11.2 / 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 Celeron N4505 NAS (16 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	19.2 GB	12.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 12/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	16.7 GB	12.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 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`	16.9 GB	12.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 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`	15.7 GB	12.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)

Hardware that can run it

87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 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 5090 FP8 · 8.7 s · Runs well (tight fit)
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell FP16 · 8.5 s · Runs great
87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FP8 · 11 s · Runs well (tight fit · encoder in RAM)
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (128 GB) FP16 · 22 s · Runs well
87Excellent quality (A+) · 87 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX FP8 · 12 s · Runs well (tight fit · encoder in RAM)
89Excellent quality (A+) · 89 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. NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB) FP16 · 26 s · Runs well

Models that do run on the Intel Celeron N4505 NAS (16 GB)

84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image Klein Q4 GGUF · 53.2 min
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4B FP8 · 7.0 min
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image Turbo Q4 GGUF · 23.3 min
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image Q4 GGUF · 2.6 h
79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. ERNIE-Image Turbo Q4 GGUF · 29.9 min

Quick answers

How much memory does Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo need on the Intel Celeron N4505 NAS 16GB?

Even at Q4 GGUF it needs about 15.7 GB; the Intel Celeron N4505 NAS 16GB has 12.0 GB usable.

What can the Intel Celeron N4505 NAS 16GB 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 Qwen-Image 2.1 Turbo?

RTX 5090 32GB, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB and RTX 4090 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.