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DMD2
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RANKED #62 OF 101 IMAGES · OVERALL #296 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.9 · 96 VOICES ·
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DMD2 on Hugging Face (text to image). 28,860 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.7
25 mentions
SAD5.3
7 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 37 voices in this window
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 DMD2 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
2.6B parameters (SDXL distilled UNet), FP16 checkpoint is about 5.2 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$280 USEDFP16 4-step generation at 1024x1024, ~1.2 s/image
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$520 NEWFP16 4-step generation at 1024x1024 with xFormers, ~0.6 s/image
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1800 NEWFP16 4-step or 1-step batch generation at 1024x1024, ~0.2 s/image
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN DMD2?
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 DMD2 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 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~1 S★★★★★ | UNDER A SECOND★★★★★ | 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 DMD2 yet to call it. We found 96 posts but people did not say much either way.
63 POSTS · 33 COMMENTS · LEMMY · REDDIT · GITHUB
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 · 2026-07-24 · 279 UPVOTESNvidia releases Qwen-Image-Flash
Nvidia releases Qwen-Image-Flash
- REDDIT · 2024-06-30 · 121 UPVOTESDMD2 is fast
DMD2 is fast
- REDDIT · 2025-12-18 · 110 UPVOTESTwinFlow - Qwen Image with 2 steps.
TwinFlow - Qwen Image with 2 steps.
- REDDIT · 2025-01-31 · 69 UPVOTESThis is Playground V2.5 with a 20% DMD2 Refiner (14 pictures)
This is Playground V2.5 with a 20% DMD2 Refiner (14 pictures)
- REDDIT · 2026-06-23 · 65 UPVOTESSeFi-Image: A Text-to-Image Foundation Model with Semantic-First Diffusion
SeFi-Image: A Text-to-Image Foundation Model with Semantic-First Diffusion
- REDDIT · 2025-03-04 · 36 UPVOTESSmall dusty/dirty images with SD3.5 Large, detailed/cleaned with DMD2
Small dusty/dirty images with SD3.5 Large, detailed/cleaned with DMD2
- REDDIT · 2025-10-08 · 34 UPVOTESDMD2 and euler_dy/bong_tangent, these images, nice revisit to SDXL. WF in comments.
DMD2 and euler_dy/bong_tangent, these images, nice revisit to SDXL. WF in comments.
- REDDIT · 2026-06-19 · 32 UPVOTESAnima-Turbo Coming Soon
Anima-Turbo Coming Soon
- REDDIT · 2026-02-11 · 30 UPVOTES[Release] ComfyUI-AutoGuidance — “guide the model with a bad version of itself” (Karras et al. 2024)
[Release] ComfyUI-AutoGuidance — “guide the model with a bad version of itself” (Karras et al. 2024)
- REDDIT · 2026-05-30 · 26 UPVOTES8-step FLUX.2-dev DMD2 distillation
8-step FLUX.2-dev DMD2 distillation
- REDDIT · 2024-07-04 · 25 UPVOTES4-step SDXL DMD2, colab, images (not upscaled) Tuto and link:
4-step SDXL DMD2, colab, images (not upscaled) Tuto and link:
- REDDIT · 2024-11-21 · 23 UPVOTESUpscaling old low resolution screenshots from Dune 2 with SDXL
Upscaling old low resolution screenshots from Dune 2 with SDXL