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by elpocko 438 days ago
My PC with a 3060 draws 200 W when generating an image and it takes under 30 seconds at that resolution, in some configurations (LCM) way under 10 seconds. That's a low end GPU. High end GPUs can generate at interactive frame rates.

You can generate a lot of images with the energy you would use to play a game instead for two hours; generating an image for 30 seconds uses the same amount of energy as playing a game on the same GPU for 30 seconds.