Midjourney has introduced a new Turbo Mode for users who want to generate their images faster than the usual wait time. When Turbo Mode is enabled, Midjourney lets you use its experimental GPU pool at high speed, allowing you to render images up to four times faster than the normal rendering time. This means that your images should be ready and available to you right away, as a normal rendering task only takes a few seconds to complete.

This speed increase doesn’t come for free, as you’d be spending twice as many subscription GPU minutes as a typical Fast Mode task. According to Midjourney, the average time it takes for the Midjourney Bot to render an image in Fast Mode is about one minute of GPU time. By that logic, the new Turbo Mode should be able to complete a typical imaging task in just 15 seconds, and for that you’ll be spending 2 minutes of the Fast Mode time available on your account.

Please note that this is just a rough calculation. Your final images may take longer to process due to upscaling, using custom aspect ratios, and applying older Midjourney models. This may also add more than 2 minutes of generation cost to your Fast Mode time.

Currently, you can use Turbo Mode on Midjourney versions 5.2, 5.2, and 5, but not on older versions after that. If you have Turbo Mode enabled but you try to generate images on an older Midjourney version, the process will be executed in Fast Mode instead. The same applies if Midjourney cannot find enough GPUs for image generation on Turbo Mode.