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Best local image generation model on a Mac? ERNIE-Image Turbo won our blind test
I ran six open image models through six prompts in mflux on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra and had two blind AI judges score the 48 images. ERNIE-Image Turbo scored 4.28 of 5 at about 80 seconds an image, ahead of its own 13-minute base model. FLUX.2 klein 4B is 3.6 times faster, scored 3.07 and misspelled the shop banner on both seeds. I also read each model's license for commercial use.