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		valley_guy_12 on Sept 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU That's probably due to swapping due to the 8GB of RAM. People who have run Stable Diffusion on M2 airs with 16 GB of RAM seem to get performance that is in line with their GPU core count.

bfirsh on Sept 1, 2022 [–]

Correct. We've been seeing 8GB is super slow, >=16GB is fast. We'll add that to the prerequisites.

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