SCAIL-2 14B (character animation) on Intel Xeon E-2300 NAS (32 GB)

Can the Intel Xeon E-2300 NAS (32 GB) run SCAIL-2 14B (character animation)?

Barely: it runs very slowly (tight fit · encoder unloaded after use)

Very slow (tight fit · encoder unloaded after use). At FP8 it needs about 23.4 GB of 26.2 GB usable and takes about 28.3 h per clip.

Best precision: FP8
Memory mode: Text encoder offloaded
Time per clip: 28.3 h
Output: 896×512, 81 frames, 40 steps

Download SCAIL-2 14B (character animation)

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/zai-org/SCAIL-2 (opens in a new tab)

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Official repo · GitHub

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

github.com/zai-org/SCAIL-2 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/zai-org/SCAIL-2

Links checked 6 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 FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at FP8, 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 Very slowtight fit · encoder unloaded after use: How well it runs on the Intel Xeon E-2300 NAS (32 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.	35.3 / 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.	18.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	0.6 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	15.0 / 15
Match score	68.9 / 100

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

Every precision on the Intel Xeon E-2300 NAS (32 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	18.3 GB	26.2 GB	38.9 h	Sequential CPU offload	Very slowCPU offload	80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	23.4 GB	26.2 GB	28.3 h	Text encoder offloaded	Very slowtight fit · encoder unloaded after use	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Other hardware that runs it

78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA B200 FP8 · 11.0 min · Runs well
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell FP16 · 14.7 min · Slow
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 FP8 · 15.1 min · Slow (tight fit)
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (128 GB) FP16 · 38.4 min · Slow
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB) FP8 · 39.7 min · Slow
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GB10 (128 GB) FP8 · 37.5 min · Slow

Quick answers

How much memory does SCAIL-2 14B (character animation) need on the Intel Xeon E-2300 NAS 32GB?

At FP8 it needs about 23.4 GB. The Intel Xeon E-2300 NAS 32GB has 26.2 GB usable.

How long does SCAIL-2 14B (character animation) take on the Intel Xeon E-2300 NAS 32GB?

About 28.3 h per clip at FP8 and default settings, an estimate scaled from a reference timing by this hardware’s compute 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.