Fastest GPU For Image to Video

Animating a still you already have, the stage that turns keyframes into footage.

Full guide: Best GPU for Image-to-video, with what each card costs per job, which VRAM sizes fit, and our picks.

Stable Video Diffusion

Weights: stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid

NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM34.875
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50902.836
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40902.235
NVIDIA L40S2.186
GeForce RTX 50801.673
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40801.438
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti1.397
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30901.065
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super1.03
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti0.672
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.643
NVIDIA L40.629
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30600.427

Measured in clips/min. Longer is faster.

#GPUclips/min
1NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM34.88
2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50902.84
3NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40902.24
4NVIDIA L40S2.19
5GeForce RTX 50801.67
6NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40801.44
7GeForce RTX 5070 Ti1.4
8NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30901.07
9NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super1.03
10GeForce RTX 5060 Ti0.67
11NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.64
12NVIDIA L40.63
13NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30600.43

LTX-Video (image to video)

Weights: Lightricks/LTX-Video

NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM310.623
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50906.152
NVIDIA L40S5.089
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40904.188
GeForce RTX 50802.389
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30902.165
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40801.873
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti1.825
NVIDIA L41.406
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti1.075
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.962

Measured in image to video. Longer is faster.

#GPUclips/min
1NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM310.62
2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50906.15
3NVIDIA L40S5.09
4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40904.19
5GeForce RTX 50802.39
6NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30902.17
7NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40801.87
8GeForce RTX 5070 Ti1.83
9NVIDIA L41.41
10GeForce RTX 5060 Ti1.08
11NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.96

CogVideoX-5B I2V

Weights: THUDM/CogVideoX-5b-I2V

NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM30.879
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM40.468
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50900.447
NVIDIA L40S0.383
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40900.328
GeForce RTX 50800.257
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40800.218
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti0.213
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30900.15
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti0.112
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.099

Measured in clips/min. Longer is faster.

#GPUclips/min
1NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM30.88
2NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM40.47
3NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50900.45
4NVIDIA L40S0.38
5NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40900.33
6GeForce RTX 50800.26
7NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40800.22
8GeForce RTX 5070 Ti0.21
9NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30900.15
10GeForce RTX 5060 Ti0.11
11NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.1

Stable Video Diffusion XT

Weights: stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid-xt

NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM32.882
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM41.536
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50901.344
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40901.212
NVIDIA L40S1.166
GeForce RTX 50800.935
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40800.814
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti0.766
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30900.494
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti0.415
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.361

Measured in clips/min. Longer is faster.

#GPUclips/min
1NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM32.88
2NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM41.54
3NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50901.34
4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40901.21
5NVIDIA L40S1.17
6GeForce RTX 50800.94
7NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40800.81
8GeForce RTX 5070 Ti0.77
9NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30900.49
10GeForce RTX 5060 Ti0.42
11NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.36

Wan 2.2 TI2V-5B (image to video)

Weights: Wan-AI/Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Diffusers

NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM34.126
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50902.284
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM42.156
NVIDIA L40S1.606
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40901.122
GeForce RTX 50800.959
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40800.798
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti0.766
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30900.605
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti0.423
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.368

Measured in image to video. Longer is faster.

#GPUclips/min
1NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM34.13
2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50902.28
3NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM42.16
4NVIDIA L40S1.61
5NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40901.12
6GeForce RTX 50800.96
7NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40800.8
8GeForce RTX 5070 Ti0.77
9NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30900.61
10GeForce RTX 5060 Ti0.42
11NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB0.37

Wan 2.1 I2V 14B (480p)

Weights: Wan-AI/Wan2.1-I2V-14B-480P-Diffusers

NVIDIA H2000.422
NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM30.403
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM40.203

Measured in 480p. Longer is faster.

#GPUclips/min
1NVIDIA H2000.42
2NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM30.4
3NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM40.2

Cosmos-Predict2 2B Video2World

Weights: nvidia/Cosmos-Predict2-2B-Video2World

#GPUclips/min
1NVIDIA H2000.14
2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40900.06

Wan 2.2 I2V A14B

Weights: Wan-AI/Wan2.2-I2V-A14B-Diffusers

#GPUclips/min
1NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM30.4
2NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM40.21

Wan 2.1 I2V 14B (720p)

Weights: Wan-AI/Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P

#GPUclips/min
1NVIDIA H2000.12

Every number is a first-party run on our own bench. Cards missing from a board have not been measured on that model yet, or cannot fit it.