I was curious, do you run Stable Diffusion locally? On someone else’s server? What kind of computer do you need to run SD locally?
I was curious, do you run Stable Diffusion locally? On someone else’s server? What kind of computer do you need to run SD locally?
Locally with automatic1111, I’d say 10GB VRAM as a starting point to have a good experience (can do up to 1024x768 in a single go or a little less when ControlNet is involved). Though one can never have enough VRAM, when buying a new card I’d aim for 16GB VRAM to have some spare room for future models. Image generation takes about ~30sec. Upscaling is possible, but can take quite a while and results can be a bit hit and miss.
The plain StableDiffusion model is largely useless these days, go over to https://civitai.com/ and download something custom trained, they give far better results. ControlNet is another absolute must have and gives a lot of control over the resulting image (pose, 3d shape, sketch), along with a far superior inpainting, compared to img2img.
I have been playing around with SD for about half a year and it still blows my mind what kind of results you can get with rather minuscule effort. Though worth mentioning that the results are largely dictated by the AI, trying to get very specific results can be an absolute nightmare.