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>some major problems we’ve had with it. First is that it runs primarily on your own hardware That's not a "major problem", that is the one most important core
by elpocko 2y ago
>some major problems we’ve had with it. First is that it runs primarily on your own hardware
That's not a "major problem", that is the one most important core feature that anyone who is looking for full creative freedom and who doesn't want to enter "safety" censorship and surveillance hell should be looking for.
You can run ComfyUI with as little as 4 GB VRAM, which is not that much anymore.
- jrmylee 2y agothis is true. However I would my friends and I only have Macbooks so for us we wanted something that ran on the cloud
- spmurrayzzz 2y agoAre you saying that the torch performance with MPS support enabled didn't meet your performance expectations? Or are you using an intel macbook and/or one with a tiny amount of ram/vram?
- jokethrowaway 2y agoThe M1 was released in 2020, chances are by now a macbook has ARM and neural cores which are ok to do local inference
- Auracle 2y agoThey’re OK, but certainly a lot slower than with an Nvidia GPU.
- nox101 2y agoModern MacBooks are great at this stuff since they have unified memory and the GPU can use all of it
- isoprophlex 2y agoI run it on a 6 year old i5 box, no gpu, nothing. Granted, I'm fine with waiting 30 minutes for a generation, but indeed to be that's a core feature of the tool.
- lawlessone 2y agoWhat's the power consumption on that ?seems like its more expensive to run than a gpu, but if you're not doing it often i guess it's not worth upgrading.
- isoprophlex 2y ago60-70 W? Let's say 40 Wh per generation. Not so nice, but that works out to ~ 0.8 cents. So for a few generations a day, I can probably manage...
- elpocko 2y agoI have a similar setup: I'm running a Discord bot for family and friends that can do image generation. It's a 6-core AMD EPYC VPS with no GPU. By using a SD 1.5 Latent Consistency Model (LCM) it generates an image in 3 steps or fewer. It takes about 30 seconds to generate a 512x512 image on that machine. https://civitai.com/models/4384?modelVersionId=252914 https://civitai.com/models/4384?modelVersionId=252914
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