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by OJFord 856 days ago
Even older GPUs are worth using then I take it?

For example I pulled a (2GB I think, 4 tops) 6870 out of my desktop because it's a beast (in physical size, and power consumption) and I wasn't using it for gaming or anything, figured I'd be fine just with the Intel integrated graphics. But if I wanted to play around with some models locally, it'd be worth putting it back & figuring out how to use it as a secondary card?
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rwmj 856 days ago
One counterintuitive advantage of the integrated GPU is it has access to system RAM (instead of using a dedicated and fixed amount of VRAM). That means I'm able to give the iGPU 16 GB of RAM. For me SD takes 8-9 GB of RAM when running. The system RAM is slower than VRAM which is the trade-off here.
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OJFord 856 days ago
Yeah I did wonder about that as I typed, which is why I mentioned the low amount (by modern standards anyway) on the card. OK, thanks!
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purpleflame1257 856 days ago
2GB is really low. I've been able to use A111 stable diffusion on my old gaming laptop's 1060 (6GB VRAM) and it takes a little bit less than a minute to generate an image. You would probably need to try the --lowvram flag on startup.
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mat0 856 days ago
No, I don't think so. I think you would need more VRAM to start with.
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