Testing the impact of text encoder precision on image output using Flux.2-Dev (bf16/fp8).
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About a year late with this comparison but I increased my system RAM and I wanted to see the differences between mistral_3_small_flux2_bf16 (35.58 GB!!!) and mistral_3_small_flux2_fp8 (18.03 GB). Since it's been nearly a year, I'm not really certain whether Flux.2-Dev outperforms anything more rece…
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Testing the impact of text encoder precision on image output using Flux.2-Dev (bf16/fp8).