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Stable Diffusion V1.5
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RANKED #32 OF 74 IMAGES · OVERALL #137 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.1 · 114 VOICES
stable-diffusion-v1.5 on Hugging Face (text to image). 1,864 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.7
5 mentions
SAD5.3
9 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 14 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 V1.5 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
983M parameters (UNet + text encoder), FP16 safetensors is about 2.1 GB, FP32 is about 4.3 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB (used)
4 GB VRAM
~$75 USEDFP16 medvram at 512x512 with 20 steps, ~10 s/image
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$280 NEWFP16 full precision with LoRAs and ControlNet at 512x512 with 20 steps, ~2 s/image
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$590 NEWFP16 high-res batch generation and fast upscaling, ~0.6 s/image
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN STABLE DIFFUSION V1.5?
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 V1.5 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB (used) | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~10 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
Not enough discussion about Stable Diffusion V1.5 yet to call it. We found 114 posts but people did not say much either way.
103 POSTS · 11 COMMENTS · STACK OVERFLOW · GITHUB · LEMMY · REDDIT
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?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with images models like this one.
Flux
Midjourney> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2024-02-25 · 337 UPVOTES🚀 Introducing SALL-E V1.5, a Stable Diffusion V1.5 model fine-tuned on DALL-E 3 generated samples! Our tests reveal significant…
🚀 Introducing SALL-E V1.5, a Stable Diffusion V1.5 model fine-tuned on DALL-E 3 generated samples! Our tests reveal significant improvements in performance, including better textual alignment and aesthetics. Samples in 🧵. Model is on @huggingface
- REDDIT · 2022-10-21 · 159 UPVOTESDownload the improved 1.5 model with much better faces using the latest improved autoencoder from stability, no more weird eyes
Download the improved 1.5 model with much better faces using the latest improved autoencoder from stability, no more weird eyes
- REDDIT · 2024-02-22 · 123 UPVOTESOneTrainer now supports Stable Cascade. And much more.
OneTrainer now supports Stable Cascade. And much more.
- REDDIT · 2022-10-20 · 120 UPVOTESA summary of the most recent short-lived (so far) drama about the release of the 1.5 model, for all those who are out of the loop and don't…
A summary of the most recent short-lived (so far) drama about the release of the 1.5 model, for all those who are out of the loop and don't want to read 5 different posts about the subject
- REDDIT · 2022-12-29 · 99 UPVOTESHow to turn any model into an inpainting model
How to turn any model into an inpainting model
- REDDIT · 2024-11-01 · 62 UPVOTESThis week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
This week in AI - all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
- REDDIT · 2024-10-22 · 38 UPVOTESStable Diffusion 3.5 large & large-turbo released
Stable Diffusion 3.5 large & large-turbo released
- REDDIT · 2026-02-19 · 29 UPVOTESFound my old StarryAI login 😭 could be Early Stable Diffusion v1.5 or VQGAN idk
Found my old StarryAI login 😭 could be Early Stable Diffusion v1.5 or VQGAN idk
- REDDIT · 2022-12-09 · 21 UPVOTESPrompt Challenge #4 - Cozy in the Cold.
Prompt Challenge #4 - Cozy in the Cold.
- REDDIT · 2023-03-28 · 20 UPVOTESStable Diffusion on Android (Snapdragon 8 Gen 1) in 8 seconds (512x512 resolution)
Stable Diffusion on Android (Snapdragon 8 Gen 1) in 8 seconds (512x512 resolution)
- REDDIT · 2023-08-15 · 17 UPVOTESRTX 4090 Lora training performance config.
RTX 4090 Lora training performance config.
- REDDIT · 2022-12-02 · 13 UPVOTESPrompt Challenge #3 - Couch Potato
Prompt Challenge #3 - Couch Potato