FLUX.3 Klein shines at consistent high-res photo editing on RTX 5090: 3000×4000 in ~230s

herbertseabra · reddit · 2026-10-16

A photographer's hands-on test of FLUX.3 Klein: underwhelming for text-to-image generation, but "almost perfect" for consistent photo editing that preserves pose, camera angle, skin texture, and fine details—something FLUX.2 Klein and Qwen 2.1 struggled with at high resolutions. The author calls it genuinely usable for professional photography workflows.

Setup: RTX 5090, 64GB RAM, flux3imagekleinsdbf16.safetensors diffusion model with qwen3vl4bbf16.safetensors text encoder, 16 steps, 230 seconds per image at 3000×4000.

The main downside is speed. All results were achieved without any LoRAs—the author expects dedicated consistency/upscale/sharpen LoRAs could push it further. Comparison image shows high-res skin texture detail.

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