Try Boltning! It's incredibly fast! Check my Pokemon post for settings (and remember to use the VAE!!!) https://civitai.com/images/14751887

@RedAstronaut I'll check it out. I've tried a number of lighting hyper and turbo checkpoints and I do like the speed part of them.

@RedAstronaut O(n second thought, just saw it's over 12gb..... I'll pass but thanks anyways.

@Stable_Confuzion It's worth the 12gb! It's one of the best models. Top 5. Spend some time looking at the gallery on it before deciding!

@RedAstronaut I did decide after looking through the gallery to download it. It was when I went to the download button and saw the file size that I decided a 13gb checkpoint was probably not a good match for my 8gb card. Which was kinda the whole point of this post from the get go.

@Stable_Confuzion Does the checkpoint size matter compared to the card's VRAM? I ran Boltning fine on my GTX 1080 which has 8 GB VRAM too, same as the 2070 Super.

@RedAstronaut months ago me did run XL models way above 8GB on card with only 6GB VRAM that is on internet café using comfy --lowvram, it works using the fact of https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/api/loaders/single_file#loading-a-pipeline-using-fromsinglefile which single file ckpt/safetensors loader can split into blocks that sequentially placed on memory instead of all at once, additionally fp32 XL with 12-13GB size can still be used on such card after --force-fp16 which indicates the 16bit pruning cached into RAM, btw. said PC has 16GB RAM

hmm I'll give it a try and report back! I had assume the entire CP was loaded into vram...

I did not do anything special when I used it. I just use Forge UI and saved it in models and clicked refresh and it worked. It worked really fast on my GTX 1080.

@RedAstronaut  omg.... thank you for your persistence and patience. I have not changed any settings to optimize it yet, I swears it took 5 days to load :))) Maybe because I'm impatient? 🙄🙄 Anyways, it did take me some time to load but I'm watching Dave Chapelle and a number of other things at the same time so while as of right now I cant speak for the speed, however, my first and only batch is 10 images with hires fix, a prompt known to me and wow... the quality is amazing. Thank you again and I will update on performance soon after I tweak things but... Yes, this 13gb checkpoint loads and functions in forge.... on my lil ole 8gb rtx

@Memeater thank you too as your reply also encouraged me to give it a shot!

I humbly bow my head. Thank you for the lesson.

@Stable_Confuzion no worries m8, just wanna say for comfy things done behind the curtain, user no need to know the nitty gritty, glad forge did achieve it also

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