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Both of my M1 Macs only have 8G of RAM. Is it a waste of time trying to run this with 8G?
by mark_l_watson 4y ago
Both of my M1 Macs only have 8G of RAM. Is it a waste of time trying to run this with 8G?
- pwinnski 4y agoYes, it's a waste of time. It works, kinda, sorta, but only after shutting down every other app, and even then occasionally it seems to fall over. The model is larger than 8GB in memory, so it's agonizing.
- zakki 4y agoWhat about 16MB RAM?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- marktolson 4y ago16MB? No. 16GB? Sure.
- pwinnski 4y agoMy M1 Pro with 16GB handles it fine. My M1 with 8GB does not.
- yesenadam 4y agoI have a 2020 mac mini with 8GB RAM, an image takes about 7 minutes with the default settings, no problems so far.
- Reason077 4y agoOof. I guess I should at least 16GB on my next Mac (I've been very happy with 8GB on my M1 Air for just about everything else, though).
- capableweb 4y agoRAM won't expected the speed much, mostly impacts how large images you can render (8GB would be limited to 512x512 if not smaller). Memory bandwidth and available computer cores on the GPU matters more when it comes to generation speed.
- Reason077 4y agoApparently it is many times faster on a 16GB M1 Mac. It was taking >5 minutes to render at 512x512 on my 8GB M1. According to others, it’s about a minute or less with 16GB.
- kcartlidge 4y agoTakes about 8 minutes per image with 15 steps on my 8GB M1 Air.