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Stable Diffusion 1.5
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RANKED #73 OF 78 IMAGES · OVERALL #352 OF 6,523 · VIBE SCORE 4.8 · 239 VOICES
stable-diffusion-1.5-fp16 on Hugging Face (text to image). 3,352 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY6.1
27 mentions
SAD8.9
17 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 29 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 Stable Diffusion 1.5 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
1B parameters, an FP16 checkpoint is about 4 GB (7.7 GB in FP32)
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super
6 GB VRAM
~$110 USEDFP16 precision at 512x512 with medvram optimization, ~6 s/image
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
12 GB VRAM
~$260 USEDFull FP16/FP32 precision, batch generation, ControlNet and LoRA support, ~1.8 s/image
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super
12 GB VRAM
~$590 NEWFull precision, large batch generation and high-resolution upscaling, ~0.6 s/image
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN STABLE DIFFUSION 1.5?
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 Stable Diffusion 1.5 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 4070 Super |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~6 S★★★★★ | ~2 S★★★★★ | UNDER A SECOND★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with Stable Diffusion 1.5. Biggest praise: how results look.
193 POSTS · 46 COMMENTS · LEMMY · REDDIT · X · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- Results look great (5 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- How results lookPEOPLE LOVE THIS
5 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Stable Diffusion 1.5.
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Ideogram> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-02-12 · 1093 UPVOTESThank you Chinese devs for providing for the community if it not for them we'll be still stuck at stable diffusion 1.5
Thank you Chinese devs for providing for the community if it not for them we'll be still stuck at stable diffusion 1.5
- REDDIT · 2026-06-12 · 810 UPVOTESTo all the real ones still sharing their prompts and workflows — I raise my glass 🍾🍷
To all the real ones still sharing their prompts and workflows — I raise my glass 🍾🍷
- REDDIT · 2023-04-06 · 460 UPVOTESControlnet Face Model for SD 1.5
Controlnet Face Model for SD 1.5
- REDDIT · 2024-08-31 · 320 UPVOTESStable Diffusion 1.5 model disappeared from official HuggingFace and GitHub repo
Stable Diffusion 1.5 model disappeared from official HuggingFace and GitHub repo
- REDDIT · 2023-09-04 · 297 UPVOTESControlNet SDXL for Automatic1111-WebUI official release: sd-webui-controlnet 1.1.400
ControlNet SDXL for Automatic1111-WebUI official release: sd-webui-controlnet 1.1.400
- REDDIT · 2026-04-25 · 209 UPVOTESWaTale: A free, fully local visual novel engine (Powered by SD 1.5, LayerDiffuse, and ControlNet)
WaTale: A free, fully local visual novel engine (Powered by SD 1.5, LayerDiffuse, and ControlNet)
- REDDIT · 2024-07-17 · 150 UPVOTESIntroducing 4lph4bet-next_v040: A Stable Diffusion LoRA for Font Generation
Introducing 4lph4bet-next_v040: A Stable Diffusion LoRA for Font Generation
- REDDIT · 2024-08-17 · 128 UPVOTESUNet Extractor and Remover for Stable Diffusion 1.5 , SDXL and FLUX
UNet Extractor and Remover for Stable Diffusion 1.5 , SDXL and FLUX
- REDDIT · 2024-05-11 · 122 UPVOTESKoboldCpp - Fully local stable diffusion backend and web frontend in a single 300mb executable.
KoboldCpp - Fully local stable diffusion backend and web frontend in a single 300mb executable.
- REDDIT · 2025-05-15 · 115 UPVOTESI don't know if open source generative AI will still exist in 1 or 2 years. But I'm proud of my generations. Training a lora, adjusting the…
I don't know if open source generative AI will still exist in 1 or 2 years. But I'm proud of my generations. Training a lora, adjusting the parameters, selecting a model, cfg, sampler, prompt, controlnet, workflows - I like to think of it as an art
- REDDIT · 2023-09-25 · 114 UPVOTESI compared DALL-E 3 community requests to my favourite Stable Diffusion Checkpoint, DreamShaper V7. There is an obvious conclusion.
I compared DALL-E 3 community requests to my favourite Stable Diffusion Checkpoint, DreamShaper V7. There is an obvious conclusion.
- REDDIT · 2023-10-22 · 87 UPVOTESAI Yearbook Photos Workflow with Stable Diffusion 1.5 Automatic1111
AI Yearbook Photos Workflow with Stable Diffusion 1.5 Automatic1111