diff --git a/studio/backend/core/inference/diffusion_memory.py b/studio/backend/core/inference/diffusion_memory.py
index c56d1592ce..4c4a3cca2c 100644
--- a/studio/backend/core/inference/diffusion_memory.py
+++ b/studio/backend/core/inference/diffusion_memory.py
@@ -502,6 +502,16 @@ def _apply_group_offload(pipe: Any, device: str, logger: Any) -> bool:
         import torch
         from diffusers.hooks import apply_group_offloading
 
+        # A dual-DiT pipeline (e.g. Ideogram 4's unconditional tower) carries a second
+        # denoiser as large as the first; leaving it resident would defeat this tier
+        # (the pair rarely fits where one alone did not). Stream every DiT and keep
+        # only the genuinely smaller companions resident.
+        streamed: dict[str, Any] = {"transformer": transformer}
+        for extra in ("transformer_2", "unconditional_transformer"):
+            module = getattr(pipe, extra, None)
+            if isinstance(module, torch.nn.Module):
+                streamed[extra] = module
+
         onload = torch.device(device)
         use_stream = onload.type == "cuda"  # overlap H2D copies with compute on CUDA
         gkwargs: dict[str, Any] = {
@@ -531,11 +541,12 @@ def _apply_group_offload(pipe: Any, device: str, logger: Any) -> bool:
         # load-time crash. The streamed transformer manages its own placement via the
         # offloading hooks applied next.
         for name, comp in getattr(pipe, "components", {}).items():
-            if name == "transformer":
+            if name in streamed:
                 continue
             if isinstance(comp, torch.nn.Module):
                 comp.to(onload)
-        apply_group_offloading(transformer, **gkwargs)
+        for module in streamed.values():
+            apply_group_offloading(module, **gkwargs)
         return True
     except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 — fall back to whole-module offload
         if logger is not None:
diff --git a/studio/backend/core/training/diffusion_dit_trainer.py b/studio/backend/core/training/diffusion_dit_trainer.py
index e71d7aa256..4f693e9f4c 100644
--- a/studio/backend/core/training/diffusion_dit_trainer.py
+++ b/studio/backend/core/training/diffusion_dit_trainer.py
@@ -983,6 +983,13 @@ def run_dit_lora_training(
     device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
     # The flow-matching + 4-bit path is bf16 throughout (fp32 on a CPU-only box, which is
     # unsupported for real runs but keeps import/unit tests architecture-agnostic).
+    # Fail fast on pre-Ampere CUDA (T4/V100/RTX 20xx): bf16 compute is required and the run
+    # would otherwise die deep in model load with an opaque dtype error.
+    if device == "cuda" and not torch.cuda.is_bf16_supported():
+        raise ValueError(
+            "This trainer requires a bfloat16-capable GPU (Ampere or newer); "
+            "this CUDA device does not support bf16."
+        )
     weight_dtype = torch.bfloat16 if device == "cuda" else torch.float32
 
     _assert_trusted_base_model(cfg.base_model)