ERNIE-Image Turbo · 4 GPUs measured first-party · text-to-image · Updated October 2026
What GPU Do You Need for ERNIE-Image Turbo?
ERNIE-Image Turbo on 4 GPUs, measured first-party: NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4 leads at 10.67 images/min, L40S trails at 4.41 images/min, and it peaked at 35GB of VRAM.
Benchmarked weights: baidu/ERNIE-Image-Turbo
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4
10.67 images/min on ERNIE-Image Turbo, the ceiling. Measured on our bench. 80GB of VRAM, $17,000 at launch.
- 10.67 images/min on ERNIE-Image Turbo
- 80GB, clears the ERNIE-Image Turbo floor
- Rentable by the hour rather than bought
- 400W board rating
- Datacenter or workstation hardware, not a retail purchase
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition
7.47 images/min on ERNIE-Image Turbo, lowest launch price that still fits. Measured on our bench. 96GB of VRAM, $8,565 at launch.
- 7.47 images/min on ERNIE-Image Turbo
- 96GB, clears the ERNIE-Image Turbo floor
- Rentable by the hour rather than bought
- 600W board rating
- Datacenter or workstation hardware, not a retail purchase
What GPU Do You Need for ERNIE-Image Turbo?, images/min by GPU
Efficiency: images/min per 100W drawn
Power is the average pulled during the run, sampled at 1Hz. The fastest card is often not the one here, and for anything left running this is the number that shows up on the bill.
Value: images/min per $1,000 of MSRP
Launch price, not street price, so it ages. A speed leaderboard always crowns the most expensive card; this is the counterweight.
ERNIE-Image Turbo. Measured image generation speed by GPU
| GPU | Images/min | s per image | img/W·min | Avg power |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4 | 10.67 | 5.623 | 0.041 | 257.2 W |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition | 7.47 | 8.04 | 0.02 | 368.3 W |
| NVIDIA H200 | 5.52 | 10.86 | 0.02 | 282.5 W |
| NVIDIA L40S | 4.41 | 13.61 | 0.016 | 279.4 W |
What the numbers show. Across 4 GPUs measured on our own bench, A100 80GB SXM4 is fastest at 10.7 images/min. The slowest, L40S, manages 4.41, so the spread is 2.4x from top to bottom. Per dollar of launch price, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition gives the most (0.9 images/min per $1,000).
About ERNIE-Image Turbo. ERNIE-Image Turbo: from baidu, 8.0B parameters, on Hugging Face since April 2026, Apache 2.0 licence. 155,902 downloads in the last 30 days and 1 community quantizations.
How it compares. L40S: ERNIE-Image Turbo 4.41 images/min, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large 4.54 (8B), Qwen-Image 2.1 1.78 (7B), FLUX.2 klein 9B 25.95 (9B), Z-Image 1.31 (6B). 2 of 4 beat ERNIE-Image Turbo here.
Cost on a rented GPU. 1,000 images of ERNIE-Image Turbo: $1.48 on a A100 80GB SXM4 ($0.95/hr, 94 min).
ERNIE-Image Turbo: cost per 1,000 images on rented GPUs
| GPU | Cheapest rate | Speed (images/min) | Cost per 1,000 images |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4 | $0.95/hr | 10.67 | $1.48 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition | $1.08/hr | 7.47 | $2.40 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.79/hr | 4.41 | $2.99 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $3.59/hr | 5.52 | $10.84 |
Cheapest hourly rate we track on RunPod and Vast.ai, divided by the measured speed. Startup time and storage are extra.
Speed tiers for ERNIE-Image Turbo. 6-30 images/min: 2 (A100 80GB SXM4, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition); under 6 images/min: 2 (H200, L40S). 30 images/min means two seconds or less per picture.
Time per image. ERNIE-Image Turbo at 1024px and 8 steps: 5.6s per image on the A100 80GB SXM4, 13.6s on the L40S. A batch of 100 takes 9 min on the fastest card and 23 min on the slowest.
VRAM for ERNIE-Image Turbo. Measured peak 32.8GB, so 48GB is the smallest common card size; smallest card it ran on: L40S (48GB).
Power on ERNIE-Image Turbo. Most efficient: A100 80GB SXM4, 257W, 0.40 kWh per 1,000 images. Hungriest: RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, 368W, 0.82 kWh. At $0.15/kWh: $0.060 per 1,000 images.
Our verdict
Fastest on ERNIE-Image Turbo: NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4, 10.67 images/min. Cheapest to rent per job: NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4, $1.48 per 1,000 images.
FAQ
- What GPU do I need to run ERNIE-Image Turbo?
- About 34GB. Smallest card that ran it: NVIDIA L40S (48GB).
- How much does it cost to run ERNIE-Image Turbo in the cloud?
- $1.48 per 1,000 images on a NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM4 at $0.95/hr, cheapest of 4 rentable cards we measured.
- Can I run ERNIE-Image Turbo on a 12GB, 16GB or 24GB card?
- It used 32.8GB at the precision we tested. 12GB: no; 16GB: no; 24GB: no.
- Is the A100 80GB SXM4 or the L40S faster for ERNIE-Image Turbo?
- The A100 80GB SXM4: 10.67 vs 4.41 images/min, 142% faster on our bench.
How we test
ERNIE-Image Turbo at 1024px in diffusers, bf16, native precision with no offload, timed over three generations after a warmup, with power and VRAM sampled throughout. Image speed tracks tensor compute and architecture generation more than memory bandwidth, so the order here differs from our LLM boards.