Wan 2.1 VACE 14B on Intel Core i5-1235U / i7-1255U NAS (96 GB)

Can the Intel Core i5-1235U / i7-1255U NAS (96 GB) run Wan 2.1 VACE 14B?

Barely: it runs very slowly

Very slow. At FP16 it needs about 64.6 GB of 83.5 GB usable and takes about 66.2 h per clip.

Best precision: FP16
Memory mode: Everything on GPU
Time per clip: 66.2 h
Output: 1280×720, 81 frames, 50 steps

Download Wan 2.1 VACE 14B

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/QuantStack/Wan2.1_14B_VACE-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/Wan-AI/Wan2.1-VACE-14B (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/Wan-Video/Wan2.1 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.1

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 FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at FP16, 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 slow: How well it runs on the Intel Core i5-1235U / i7-1255U NAS (96 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.	35.1 / 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.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	0.4 / 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	75.5 / 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 Core i5-1235U / i7-1255U NAS (96 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	64.6 GB	83.5 GB	66.2 h	Everything on GPU	Very slow	78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	41.6 GB	83.5 GB	59.6 h	Everything on GPU	Very slow	76Great quality (A) · 76 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.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`Q8 GGUF`	42.8 GB	83.5 GB	76.2 h	Everything on GPU	Very slow	77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4 GGUF`	34.7 GB	83.5 GB	79.5 h	Everything on GPU	Very slow	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.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)

Other hardware that runs it

78Great quality (A) · 78 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 · 26.9 min · Slow
72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q4 GGUF · 38.6 min · Slow (tight fit · encoder in RAM)
78Great quality (A) · 78 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 GH200 Grace Hopper (96 GB GPU) FP16 · 25.5 min · Slow
78Great quality (A) · 78 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 H100 80GB SXM FP16 · 25.5 min · Slow
78Great quality (A) · 78 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 H800 80GB SXM FP16 · 25.5 min · Slow
78Great quality (A) · 78 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 H100 NVL FP16 · 27.7 min · Slow

Quick answers

How much memory does Wan 2.1 VACE 14B need on the Intel Core i5-1235U / i7-1255U NAS 96GB?

At FP16 it needs about 64.6 GB. The Intel Core i5-1235U / i7-1255U NAS 96GB has 83.5 GB usable.

How long does Wan 2.1 VACE 14B take on the Intel Core i5-1235U / i7-1255U NAS 96GB?

About 66.2 h per clip at FP16 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.