AI BriefingComparing 10 Local Image Models on Mac
·2026.05.03 10:08
Key point
Comparing 10 image models on an M1 Max 64GB revealed differences in non-English cultural accuracy.
Details
Ran 10 image generation models on an M1 Max 64GB to compare photorealism, text rendering, and cultural accuracy.
- Qwen-Image Lightning had better quality than the full model while being about 9x faster at 10 minutes vs 93 minutes.
- Flux dev had the best photorealism among local models, but its strong English-centric bias caused errors such as putting cilantro in ramen or turning an izakaya into a teahouse.
- Gemini was the most accurate in kanji rendering and cultural context, but it was a cloud model, not a local one.
- SDXL Turbo was the fastest at 5 seconds, but the quality was rough.
The conclusion is that for non-English image generation, the locality of the training data matters more than model size in determining the results.
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