From the course: Stable Diffusion: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Installing Stable Diffusion locally

Installing Stable Diffusion locally

- [Instructor] Installing Stable Diffusion on your own hardware offers a number of advantages, the most significant of which is speed. If you've got a fast video card then you can get extremely quick rendering times. Here you can see I'm rendering images at an average speed of five or six seconds each. For iterating and generating large batches, this is great. By comparison, using an online site can sometimes take up to a minute per image. Now, a lot of my speed gain when running locally comes simply from the fact that I don't have to share processor time with lots of other users because I'm running on my own hardware. The downside to this is that to get really fast rendering, you've got to have an expensive video card. Stable Diffusion is open source software, but at the time of this shooting, there is no official release of it of any kind. Instead, a number of enthusiasts have created and released distributions,…

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