Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

I've done some preliminary testing with Z-Image Turbo in the past week.

Thoughts

- It's fast (~3 seconds on my RTX 4090)

- Surprisingly capable of maintaining image integrity even at high resolutions (1536x1024, sometimes 2048x2048)

- The adherence is impressive for a 6B parameter model

Some tests (2 / 4 passed):

https://imgpb.com/exMoQ

Personally I find it works better as a refiner model downstream of Qwen-Image 20b which has significantly better prompt understanding but has an unnatural "smoothness" to its generated images.

So does this finally replace SDXL?

Is Flux 1/2/Kontext left in the dust by the Z Image and Qwen combo?

SDXL has been outclassed for a while, especially since Flux came out.