Why is qwen 2.1 i2i so slow?

The text encoder alone takes 3 minutes on the int8 version. Any startup args or anything that would help? 9070xt, 64gb ddr4

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2026-09-27 11:27 · r/StableDiffusion
Why is qwen 2.1 i2i so slow?

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