# nihui/qwenimage-ncnn-vulkan

> Portable ncnn/Vulkan implementation of Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image generation and image editing without Python, PyTorch or CUDA. Runs on Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and Apple Silicon GPUs.

- Magnitude: 3.9 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 95 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 25 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Generative media · Language: C++ · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-09-21 · Last push: 2026-09-23
- GitHub: https://github.com/nihui/qwenimage-ncnn-vulkan · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/nihui/qwenimage-ncnn-vulkan

## Useful for

- Generate an image from a text prompt on a machine without CUDA or PyTorch
- Edit a photo by instruction, e.g. change clothes to a blue jacket
- Combine several reference images (subject, clothing, background) into one

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 25 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 3 days old and already has 95 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #175.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @0xSojalSec (999 followers), @vic4key (338 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5
- Issues and pull requests: 3
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 30 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: 20260923 (2026-09-23)

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-09-24: 0, 5, 58, 32, 0

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #175

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Data as of 2026-09-24 02:50 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.