Z-Image Turbo runs locally on Mac Studio: 8-step CFG-1 recipe yields striking B&W portraits
braddown · reddit · 2026-10-20
A Reddit user shares early results running Z-Image Turbo (zimageturbobf16) locally in ComfyUI on a Mac Studio 64GB, with portrait-style text-to-image outputs that look impressive.
Setup details:
- Text encoder: Qwen3 4B (lumina2); VAE: ae.safetensors
- Settings: 832×1216, 8 steps, CFG 1, resmultistep/simple sampler, AuraFlow shift 3
- No negative prompt, no LoRA, no upscaling
The shared prompt produced a detailed black-and-white close-up portrait with natural freckles, damp swept-back hair, and soft frontal lighting — a good showcase of what this model can do on consumer hardware.
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