• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    That quote was in the context of the 1981 personal computer market, and in that context is correct.

    It’s like a game company CEO saying 12GB of video ram is enough in 2024 so we don’t all need an RTX 4090.

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      8 months ago

      12GB of video ram is enough in 2024

      And then Stable Diffusion showed up

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        8 months ago

        Im getting away with my 8gb for now.

        Its the language/text stuff that really needs like 30gb GPUs.

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          8 months ago

          Im getting away with my 8gb for now.

          I don’t think that you can do the current XL models with 8GB, even for low-resolution images. Maybe with --lowvram or something.

          I’ve got a 24GB RX 7900 XT and would render higher resolution images if I had the VRAM – yeah, you can sometimes sort of get a similar effect by upscaling in tiles, but it’s not really a replacement. And I am confident that even if they put a consumer card out with 128GB, someone will figure out some new clever extension that does something fascinating and useful…as long as one can devote a little more memory to it…

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            8 months ago

            I do XL all the time, at about 30-45 seconds per image. 8gb is surprisingly enough for SDXL, and I run like 7gb models with 3-6 Lora on top.