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Stable Diffusion 3.5
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by Stability AI
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALCREATING PICTURESVISUAL DESIGNGENERATING ART
RANKED #33 OF 88 IMAGES · OVERALL #131 OF 6,446 · VIBE SCORE 6.1 · 417 VOICES
An image generator you can run on your computer to create custom pictures and artwork.
HAPPY8.7
37 mentions
SAD6.3
17 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 304 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
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 3.5 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
8.1B parameters (Large), an FP8 quantized file is about 11 GB, while Medium is 2.5B parameters.
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$150 USEDSD 3.5 Medium at FP16, or SD 3.5 Large quantized to FP8/INT4 (~10-15 seconds per image)
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$560 NEWSD 3.5 Large in FP8 precision with TensorRT optimizations (~4-6 seconds per image)
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$2,400 STREET PRICESD 3.5 Large at full FP16 precision with triple text encoders (~1-2 seconds per image)
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN STABLE DIFFUSION 3.5?
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 3.5 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~13 S★★★★★ | ~5 S★★★★★ | ~2 S★★★★★ |
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
There are currently no detailed community opinions recorded for Stable Diffusion 3.5.
158 POSTS · 259 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · STACK OVERFLOW · OTHER FORUMS · GITHUB · LEMMY · BLOG · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Stable Diffusion 3.5.
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DALL E 3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2024-10-23 · 344 UPVOTESStable Diffusion 3.5 vs SDXL 1.0 vs SD 1.6 vs SD3 Medium
Stable Diffusion 3.5 vs SDXL 1.0 vs SD 1.6 vs SD3 Medium
- REDDIT · 2024-10-29 · 334 UPVOTESStable Diffusion 3.5 Medium is here!
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium is here!
- REDDIT · 2025-08-02 · 235 UPVOTESStable-Diffusion-3.5-Small-Preview1
Stable-Diffusion-3.5-Small-Preview1
- REDDIT · 2025-01-02 · 208 UPVOTESGlobal Text Encoder Misalignment? Potential Breakthrough in LoRA and Fine-Tune Training Stability
Global Text Encoder Misalignment? Potential Breakthrough in LoRA and Fine-Tune Training Stability
- REDDIT · 2024-10-22 · 182 UPVOTESSD3.5 Large is here!
SD3.5 Large is here!
- REDDIT · 2025-02-07 · 169 UPVOTESAbsynth 2.0 Enhanced Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium Base Model
Absynth 2.0 Enhanced Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium Base Model
- REDDIT · 2024-11-13 · 141 UPVOTESStability.AI has released an SD3.5 prompting guide
Stability.AI has released an SD3.5 prompting guide
- REDDIT · 2024-12-20 · 135 UPVOTESIntroducing TensorArt's Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium Turbo Model
Introducing TensorArt's Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium Turbo Model
- REDDIT · 2024-10-29 · 135 UPVOTESStable DIffusion 3.5 medium has been released and there's something special
Stable DIffusion 3.5 medium has been released and there's something special
- REDDIT · 2024-10-23 · 106 UPVOTESSDNext Release 2024-10
SDNext Release 2024-10
- REDDIT · 2024-10-23 · 88 UPVOTESStable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo, 20 images/minute (8 steps) on an A100 Colab (20 pics)
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo, 20 images/minute (8 steps) on an A100 Colab (20 pics)
- REDDIT · 2026-04-30 · 67 UPVOTESPSA: llama-swap released a new grouping feature, matrix, allowing you to fine tune which models can run together
PSA: llama-swap released a new grouping feature, matrix, allowing you to fine tune which models can run together