Hi! This is a simple workflow to create realistic images using Flux Dev, Schnell, Kontext or other models with only a laptop and 4GB VRAM.

The Workflow uses GGUF files , uses two samplers and torch teacache etc for speed.

In only 30 steps im getting semi realistic images with

🎥 Video Explainer:

📦 DOWNLOAD SECTION

Only MODELS (not VAE or CLIP)

• https://huggingface.co/city96/FLUX.1-dev-gguf

• https://huggingface.co/city96/FLUX.1-schnell-gguf

• https://huggingface.co/QuantStack/FLUX.1-Kontext-dev-GGUF

• https://huggingface.co/mikeyandfriends/PixelWave_FLUX.1-dev_03

VAE

• https://huggingface.co/ffxvs/vae-flux/blob/main/ae.safetensors

CLIP

• https://huggingface.co/city96/t5-v1_1-xxl-encoder-gguf/tree/main

• https://huggingface.co/comfyanonymous/flux_text_encoders/blob/main/clip_l.safetensors

📖 Download Overview

• Flux Kontext = Higher quality, Image editing

• Flux Dev = Higher quality

• Flux Schnell = Faster, needs fewer steps to create usable images

• PixelWave = Merged checkpoint for better realism

⚙️ Quantization

• -q8 → Highest quality, most VRAM used

• -q5 → Least quality loss, most performance gained

• Below -q5 → Less VRAM usage, lower quality

CLIP

• fp16 → Better textual understanding, more VRAM used

• fp8 → Less textual understanding, less VRAM used

• scaled → less

🔗 Helpful Sources:

• FluxDev 20 vs 30 Steps – Does It Even Matter?

• Flux Prompting – The Next Step

• Comprehensive Guide on Prompting?

If you have any questions, leave a comment and I will try to help :)