#415·flux

Inference on TPUs instead of GPUs.

Author: kennycoderCreated Feb 14, 2025Updated Jul 26, 2026

Hi folks! Our AI Hypercomputer team ported Flux inference implementation to MaxDiffusion and were able to successfully run both Flux-dev and Flux-schnell models using Google's TPUs.

Running tests on 1024 x 1024 images with flash attention and bfloat16 gave the following results:

Model Accelerator Sharding Strategy Batch Size Steps time (secs)
Flux-dev v4-8 DDP 4 28 23
Flux-schnell v4-8 DDP 4 4 2.2
Flux-dev v6e-4 DDP 4 28 5.5
Flux-schnell v6e-4 DDP 4 4 0.8
Flux-schnell v6e-4 FSDP 4 4 1.2

We'd appreciate if you could give us some feedback on the above-mentioned results and our overall approach.