qwen-image-mps (via) Ivan Fioravanti built this Python CLI script for running the Qwen/Qwen-Image image generation model on an Apple silicon Mac, optionally using the Qwen-Image-Lightning LoRA to dramatically speed up generation.
Ivan has tested it this on 512GB and 128GB machines and it ran really fast - 42 seconds on his M3 Ultra. I've run it on my 64GB M2 MacBook Pro - after quitting almost everything else - and it just about manages to output images after pegging my GPU (fans whirring, keyboard heating up) and occupying 60GB of my available RAM. With the LoRA option running the script to generate an image took 9m7s on my machine.
Ivan merged my PR adding inline script dependencies for uv which means you can now run it like this:
uv run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ivanfioravanti/qwen-image-mps/refs/heads/main/qwen-image-mps.py \
-p 'A vintage coffee shop full of raccoons, in a neon cyberpunk city' -f
The first time I ran this it downloaded the 57.7GB model from Hugging Face and stored it in my ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--Qwen--Qwen-Image directory. The -f option fetched an extra 1.7GB Qwen-Image-Lightning-8steps-V1.0.safetensors file to my working directory that sped up the generation.
Here's the resulting image:
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