I run it on a 6 year old i5 box, no gpu, nothing. Granted, I'm fine with waiting 30 minutes for a generation, but indeed to be that's a core feature of the tool.
I have a similar setup: I'm running a Discord bot for family and friends that can do image generation. It's a 6-core AMD EPYC VPS with no GPU.
By using a SD 1.5 Latent Consistency Model (LCM) it generates an image in 3 steps or fewer. It takes about 30 seconds to generate a 512x512 image on that machine.
What's the power consumption on that ?seems like its more expensive to run than a gpu, but if you're not doing it often i guess it's not worth upgrading.
By using a SD 1.5 Latent Consistency Model (LCM) it generates an image in 3 steps or fewer. It takes about 30 seconds to generate a 512x512 image on that machine.
https://civitai.com/models/4384?modelVersionId=252914