AnalysisOpinion / analysisImage, Video & 3D Generation1 source · Oct 11, 2026

MCP - Qwen2.1 Turbo + Kandinsky Lite Video Gen on 8GB VRAM

Qwen-Image-2.1 Turbo runs on as little as 4GB of VRAM (tested on a GTX 1650; it works, but slow.

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Key points

  • Update: I posted this MCP open-source project last week.
  • Since then, I've added video generation and Qwen-Image-2.1 Turbo.
  • With 8GB of VRAM you get better speeds, and you can even run the video model, Kandinsky 6 Lite.
  • 2x / 4x upscaler (ESRGAN, up to 8192 px)

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Before this

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  2. Oct 11, 2026I am building a web application to transform images into Gaussian Splats
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  4. Oct 10, 2026Krea2 Turbo Distill 2 step LoRA - FINAL checkpoint released (chk51195)
  5. Oct 9, 2026Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
  6. Oct 8, 2026unslothai/unsloth v0.1.905-beta: Sandboxing is here!

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