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What's the point of GGUFs in 2026?

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Genuine question. I have just 6GB VRAM and 16GB of RAM, yet FP8 models run 5x faster than GGUFs. Even really big ones. Right now I mainly using Qwen Image and Flux 2 Klein 9B as the main models. First I tried them in GGUF format and those workflows took over 100-200 seconds. Then I tried FP8 versio…

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  1. 2026-08-20 08:05 · r/StableDiffusion
    What's the point of GGUFs in 2026?

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