Z-Image Turbo on Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB)

Can the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB) run Z-Image Turbo?

Yes, it runs well (tight fit · encoder unloaded after use)

Runs well (tight fit · encoder unloaded after use). At FP8 it needs about 8.5 GB of 9.1 GB usable and takes about 24 s per image.

Best precision: FP8
Memory mode: Text encoder offloaded
Time per image: 24 s
Output: 1024×1024, 8 steps

Download Z-Image Turbo

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/unsloth/Z-Image-Turbo-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

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

github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image

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 FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (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 Runs welltight fit · encoder unloaded after use: How well it runs on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H 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.	37.0 / 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.	18.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	9.6 / 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	79.6 / 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 Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	6.5 GB	9.1 GB	34 s	Sequential CPU offload	Runs wellCPU offload	84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	8.5 GB	9.1 GB	24 s	Text encoder offloaded	Runs welltight fit · encoder unloaded after use	82Great quality (A) · 82 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.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`Q8 GGUF`	4.5 GB	9.1 GB	39 s	Sequential CPU offload	Runs wellCPU offload	83Great quality (A) · 83 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.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4 GGUF`	6.1 GB	9.1 GB	33 s	Text encoder offloaded	Runs wellencoder unloaded after use	78Great quality (A) · 78 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.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)

Other hardware that runs it

84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 FP16 · 2.1 s · Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q8 GGUF · 3.8 s · Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Q8 GGUF · 7.7 s · Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q8 GGUF · 4.6 s · Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q8 GGUF · 4.1 s · Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 92/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Q8 GGUF · 7.3 s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does Z-Image Turbo need on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB?

At FP8 it needs about 8.5 GB. The Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB has 9.1 GB usable.

How long does Z-Image Turbo take on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB?

About 24 s per image 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.