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Best Local Image Generation Model on Mac: ERNIE vs FLUX

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If you're after the best local image generation model on a Mac, my pick after tonight's test is ERNIE-Image Turbo under mflux. On our Mac Studio it took a median of 80 seconds for a 1600x896 image and averaged 4.28 out of 5 from two blind judges, against 3.07 for FLUX.2 klein 4B. Against FLUX.2 kle…

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  1. 2026-10-16 20:09 · DEV Community — AI
    Best Local Image Generation Model on Mac: ERNIE vs FLUX

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