Detailed Review of SDXL Turbo - AI Text to Image Software (2026)

What is SDXL Turbo?

SDXL Turbo is a new text-to-image mode based on a novel distillation technique called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), enabling the model to create image outputs in a single step and generate real-time text-to-image outputs while maintaining high sampling fidelity. SDXL Turbo achieves state-of-the-art performance with a new distillation technology, enabling single-step image generation with unprecedented quality, reducing the required step count from 50 to just one. Test SDXL Turbo on Stability AI’s image editing platform Clipdrop , with a beta demonstration of the real-time text-to-image generation capabilities. Additionally, SDXL Turbo provides major improvements to inference speed. On an A100, SDXL Turbo generates a 512x512 image in 207ms (prompt encoding + a single denoising step + decoding, fp16), where 67ms a