HiDream-I1 Fast on Raspberry Pi 4 (2 GB)

Can the Raspberry Pi 4 (2 GB) run HiDream-I1 Fast?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. HiDream-I1 Fast needs about 6.2 GB even at NF4; the Raspberry Pi 4 (2 GB) has 1.2 GB usable.

Download HiDream-I1 Fast

Quantized files · GGUF for ComfyUI

Smaller GGUF versions for ComfyUI (with the ComfyUI-GGUF node). No sign-in needed; the model’s license still applies.

huggingface.co/city96/HiDream-I1-Fast-gguf (opens in a new tab)

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from HiDream.ai, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers, Diffusers or ComfyUI.

huggingface.co/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1-Fast (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from HiDream.ai. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1

Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at NF4, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at NF4, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Won't run: How well it runs on the Raspberry Pi 4 (2 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	9.5 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.	0.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	0.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	0.0 / 15
Match score	9.5 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

Every precision on the Raspberry Pi 4 (2 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	14.8 GB	1.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	8.8 GB	1.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`Q8 GGUF`	9.3 GB	1.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4 GGUF`	6.5 GB	1.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`NF4`	6.2 GB	1.2 GB	—	—	Won't run	70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at NF4, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Hardware that can run it

76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell FP16 · 7.3 s · Runs great
70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at NF4, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 NF4 · 9.2 s · Runs great
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (128 GB) FP16 · 19 s · Runs well
76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB) FP16 · 22 s · Runs well
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FP8 · 9.5 s · Runs great (encoder in RAM)
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX FP8 · 11 s · Runs great (encoder in RAM)

Models that do run on the Raspberry Pi 4 (2 GB)

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.