Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium on Intel Xeon D-1500 series NAS (4 GB)

Can the Intel Xeon D-1500 series NAS (4 GB) run Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium needs about 3.0 GB even at FP8; the Intel Xeon D-1500 series NAS (4 GB) has 2.0 GB usable.

Download Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium

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/stable-diffusion-3.5-medium-gguf (opens in a new tab)

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3.5-medium (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 Stability AI. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/Stability-AI/sd3.5 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/Stability-AI/sd3.5

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

How it’s rated

Quality 56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (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 Won't run: How well it runs on the Intel Xeon D-1500 series 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.	7.7 / 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	7.7 / 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 Xeon D-1500 series NAS (4 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	3.9 GB	2.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	3.0 GB	2.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`Q8 GGUF`	3.0 GB	2.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)

Hardware that can run it

58Good quality (B) · 58 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. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX FP16 · 6.7 s · Runs great
58Good quality (B) · 58 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 GeForce RTX 4090 FP16 · 6.0 s · Runs great
57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q8 GGUF · 9.2 s · Runs great
57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q8 GGUF · 9.7 s · Runs great
57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Q8 GGUF · 9.2 s · Runs great
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER FP8 · 8.6 s · Runs great

Models that do run on the Intel Xeon D-1500 series NAS (4 GB)

39Basic quality (D) · 39 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 54/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SDXL Turbo FP8 · 24 s
28Basic quality (D) · 28 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 51/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SD Turbo FP16 · 15 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 · 3.6 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 · 3.6 min
30Basic quality (D) · 30 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. LCM DreamShaper v7 FP16 · 45 s

Quick answers

How much memory does Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium need on the Intel Xeon D-1500 series NAS 4GB?

Even at FP8 it needs about 3.0 GB; the Intel Xeon D-1500 series NAS 4GB has 2.0 GB usable.

What can the Intel Xeon D-1500 series 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 Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium?

RX 7900 XTX 24GB, RTX 4090 24GB and RX 9070 XT 16GB 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.