Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5
Teaching Automatic1111 to Speak Metal on an M1 By Derek Anderson I use Draw Things a lot on Apple hardware, and one thing has always bothered me about Automatic1111: it feels slower than it should.Not unusably slow. Just slow enough that you notice it.On my M3 Pro, a short five-step DPM++ SDE generation in Automatic1111 was typically landing somewhere around 8–10 seconds. Draw Things had already shown me that Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon could feel much more immediate than that.So I wanted to see how much of that gap was actually necessary.GitHub - dmikey/stable-diffusion-webui-metal: a fine tuned automatic1111 for Apple Silicon.a fine tuned automatic1111 for Apple Silicon.
- ▪Teaching Automatic1111 to Speak Metal on an M1 By Derek Anderson I use Draw Things a lot on Apple hardware, and one thing has always bothered me about Automatic1111: it feels slower than it should.Not unusably slow.
- ▪Just slow enough that you notice it.On my M3 Pro, a short five-step DPM++ SDE generation in Automatic1111 was typically landing somewhere around 8–10 seconds.
- ▪Draw Things had already shown me that Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon could feel much more immediate than that.So I wanted to see how much of that gap was actually necessary.GitHub - dmikey/stable-diffusion-webui-metal: a fine tuned autom
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Teaching Automatic1111 to Speak Metal on an M1 By Derek Anderson I use Draw Things a lot on Apple hardware, and one thing has always bothered me about Automatic1111: it feels slower than it should.Not unusably slow. Just slow enough that you notice it.On my M3 Pro, a short five-step DPM++ SDE generation in Automatic1111 was typically landing somewhere around 8–10 seconds. Draw Things had already shown me that Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon could feel much more immediate than that.So I wanted to see how much of that gap was actually necessary.GitHub - dmikey/stable-diffusion-webui-metal: a fine tuned automatic1111 for Apple Silicon.a fine tuned automatic1111 for Apple Silicon.
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