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Sana_1600M_1024px

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Sana_1600M_1024px is an open-weight image model from Efficient-Large-Model. Sana_1600M_1024px_BF16 (BF16) weighs 6.4 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB.

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  • Sana_1600M_1024px is a text-to-image model developed by Efficient-Large-Model that uses a Linear-Diffusion-Transformer architecture.
  • It generates 1024px images and supports English and Chinese.
  • The model has 1648M parameters, runs in BF16 precision, and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the Efficient-Large-Model/Sana_1600M_1024px_BF16 model card, 2026-10-07

What it is

Released byEfficient-Large-Model
Released2024-12-10
VRAM6.4 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Sana_1600M_1024px_BF16 (BF16)

6.4 GBweights, file size
5.0 GBworking memory, one 1024² image
537 MBruntime overhead
CardOne imageMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBdoes not fit11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What Efficient-Large-Model says about Sana_1600M_1024px

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Model

We introduce Sana, a text-to-image framework that can efficiently generate images up to 4096 × 4096 resolution. Sana can synthesize high-resolution, high-quality images with strong text-image alignment at a remarkably fast speed, deployable on laptop GPU.

Source code is available at https://github.com/NVlabs/Sana.

Model Description

Model Sources

For research purposes, we recommend our generative-models Github repository (https://github.com/NVlabs/Sana), which is more suitable for both training and inference and for which most advanced diffusion sampler like Flow-DPM-Solver is integrated. MIT Han-Lab provides free Sana inference.

  • Repository: ttps://github.com/NVlabs/Sana
  • Demo: https://nv-sana.mit.edu/

🧨 Diffusers

PR developing: Sana and DC-AE

License/Terms of Use

This model is released under the Apache License 2.0.

Uses

Direct Use

The model is intended for research purposes only. Possible research areas and tasks include

  • Generation of artworks and use in design and other artistic processes.

  • Applications in educational or creative tools.

  • Research on generative models.

  • Safe deployment of models which have the potential to generate harmful content.

  • Probing and understanding the limitations and biases of generative models.

Excluded uses are described below.

Out-of-Scope Use

The model was not trained to be factual or true representations of people or events, and therefore using the model to generate such content is out-of-scope for the abilities of this model.

Limitations and Bias

Limitations

  • The model does not achieve perfect photorealism
  • The model cannot render complex legible text
  • fingers, .etc in general may not be generated properly.
  • The autoencoding part of the model is lossy.

Bias

While the capabilities of image generation models are impressive, they can also reinforce or exacerbate social biases.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

How it works

How image models work

Text promptwhat to makeText encoderunderstands itDiffusion stepsdenoise to pixelsImagePNG / JPEGA diffusion model starts from noise and denoises it, guided by your prompt, into a finished image.

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