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RANKED #9 OF 22 VIDEO · OVERALL #57 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.6 · 302 VOICES
DreamShaper on Hugging Face (text to image). 196,351 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.8
59 mentions
SAD5.2
11 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 10 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download DreamShaper once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
0.9B to 3B parameters (SD 1.5 and SDXL fine-tunes), checkpoint files are roughly 2 GB to 6.5 GB in fp16
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super
6 GB VRAM
~$110 USEDSD 1.5 based DreamShaper 8 at 512x512 with medvram enabled
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
12 GB VRAM
~$260 USEDFull DreamShaper XL and SD 1.5 at 1024x1024 without tiling or memory bottlenecks
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
16 GB VRAM
~$950 USEDDreamShaper XL with rapid highres fix, ControlNet, and batch generation
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN DREAMSHAPER?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long DreamShaper takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make a video clipfive seconds of footage | —★★★★★ | —★★★★★ | —★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. A DASH MEANS NO SPEED WAS RESEARCHED FOR THAT RIG. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with DreamShaper. Biggest praise: how results look.
232 POSTS · 70 COMMENTS · REDDIT
PEOPLE LOVE
- Results look great (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- How results lookPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
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MiniMax H3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2023-07-29 · 848 UPVOTESDreamShaper v8 - maybe the end of the journey
DreamShaper v8 - maybe the end of the journey
- REDDIT · 2023-03-16 · 629 UPVOTESDreamShaper v4 Official Release
DreamShaper v4 Official Release
- REDDIT · 2023-05-27 · 620 UPVOTESFinally succesfull at Recreating a DreamShaper image - where to find the settings needed
Finally succesfull at Recreating a DreamShaper image - where to find the settings needed
- REDDIT · 2023-07-26 · 549 UPVOTESDreamShaper XL1.0 Alpha 2
DreamShaper XL1.0 Alpha 2
- REDDIT · 2023-04-30 · 460 UPVOTESWhat's your favorite model. Right now I'm really enjoying dreamshaper.
What's your favorite model. Right now I'm really enjoying dreamshaper.
- REDDIT · 2023-09-27 · 353 UPVOTESCivitAI is letting you use a bunch of their models, loras, and embeddings to generate stuff 100% FREE with THEIR HARDWARE and I'm not…
CivitAI is letting you use a bunch of their models, loras, and embeddings to generate stuff 100% FREE with THEIR HARDWARE and I'm not seeing nearly enough people talk about it
- REDDIT · 2024-06-23 · 319 UPVOTESWoman Lying On Grass Comparasion - Midjourney vs Dalle 3 vs Adobe Firefly vs SDXL vs SDXL Turbo vs Dreamshaper XL Lighting vs Juggernaut X…
Woman Lying On Grass Comparasion - Midjourney vs Dalle 3 vs Adobe Firefly vs SDXL vs SDXL Turbo vs Dreamshaper XL Lighting vs Juggernaut X vs Stable Cascade vs EpicRealism 5 vs SD 1.5 vs SD3
- REDDIT · 2023-11-26 · 282 UPVOTESStable Video Diffusion + DreamShaper + Pallaidium +Blender
Stable Video Diffusion + DreamShaper + Pallaidium +Blender
- REDDIT · 2024-02-10 · 206 UPVOTESIn search of a better penises
In search of a better penises
- REDDIT · 2023-07-20 · 167 UPVOTESDreamShaper XL Alpha
DreamShaper XL Alpha
- REDDIT · 2023-01-11 · 144 UPVOTESMore paintings with DreamShaper before release (with a bonus portrait)
More paintings with DreamShaper before release (with a bonus portrait)
- REDDIT · 2023-06-21 · 86 UPVOTESSee the performance of a 4090 in action.
See the performance of a 4090 in action.