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by dragonwriter 921 days ago
> Back then it was common to use 50+ steps for many of the common samplers. Current methods use a few steps like 1.

The "look how fast we can go" method (turbo model with 1 step and without CFG) is blindingly fast, but the quality is...nothing close to what was being done in normal 50+ steps with normal setitngs gens.

Realistically, even with Turbo+LCM, you're still going to 4+ steps (often 8+), with CFG, for reasonable one-generation quality anywhere close to the images people generated at 50+ steps without Turbo/LCM.

Which is still a big improvement in speed.

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> Realistically, even with Turbo+LCM, you're still going to 4+ steps (often 8+), with CFG, for reasonable one-generation quality anywhere close to the images people generated at 50+ steps without Turbo/LCM.

For sure the only reason I considered comparing it that way was because the linked repo appears to also be going for a similar approach with 1 step/image on the pi.

From my own experience I've had a hard ever getting a decent image below 6~8steps, but this repo seems more focused on getting it to run in a reasonable amount of time at all, which understandably requires the minimal "maybe passable" settings.