Tag: image-generation
- Qwen-Image-2.1 on Radeon 780M: faster images and RGBA sprites
On a Radeon 780M, Qwen-Image-2.1 generated images about 5.5 to 9.3 times faster than Qwen-Image-2512 in this test. It also saved a potion sprite with transparency in the PNG.
- Generating bilingual Open Graph images locally with Qwen-Image
Generating article backgrounds with Qwen-Image-2512 on a Radeon 780M, then adding English and Japanese titles for Astro Open Graph images.
- Qwen-Image-2512 on the 780M: why ‘Qwen-Image-2.0’ isn’t open-weight
Testing a 20B-class open-weight image model on a Radeon 780M iGPU with no discrete GPU. Qwen-Image-2.0 looked like the obvious pick until it turned out to be API-only. Qwen-Image-2512 is the actual open model, and it runs.
- ComfyUI on AMD Radeon 780M: retiring ZLUDA for AMD's TheRock
AMD's own TheRock build now targets gfx1103 directly, so ComfyUI on a Radeon 780M doesn't need ZLUDA's DLL injection and security exclusions anymore, and it runs roughly twice as fast with the right attention setting.
- Getting real GPU acceleration for Stable Diffusion on an unsupported AMD Radeon 780M
ComfyUI wouldn't touch the GPU on this AMD chip at all. Getting real acceleration meant DirectML, then ZLUDA, and eight separate crashes before Stable Diffusion ran at real speed.
