Z-Image Turbo in ComfyUI: Realism at Lightning Speed

Z-Image from Alibaba Tongyi Lab is a powerful and highly efficient 6B-parameter image generation model designed for high-quality visual synthesis. Z-Image-Turbo, its distilled variant, is optimized to run comfortably on consumer GPUs with 16GB of VRAM while maintaining exceptional performance. It particularly excels at producing photorealistic images with strong detail fidelity.

The research team also plans to release the full, non-distilled foundation model, opening the door for community-driven fine-tuning, custom workflows, and broader development across the open-source ecosystem.