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nicoburns on Sept 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU

Might be the RAM difference. RAM is shared between CPU and GPU on the M1 series processors.

mattkevan on Sept 1, 2022 [–]

My 16gb M1 Air was initially taking 13 minutes for a 50 step generation. But when I closed all the open tabs and apps it went down to 3 minutes.

Looks like RAM drastically affects the speed.

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