DirectML VS civitai

Only reason I am using the DirectML fork of Automatic1111 is because I am on Windows and pytorch hasn't caught up to RocM 6.

DirectML is fully supported path on Windows and is support by Microsoft et al. (https://github.com/microsoft/DirectML).

Everyone is moving off Cuda as quickly as possible not because the other are better, per se, but because it is easier and cheaper.

See: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectML/issues/400

ONNX (https://onnx.ai/ https://github.com/onnx/onnx) is an alternative to the basic CUDA model, using Direct-ML ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/directml/dml-intro https://github.com/microsoft/DirectML), which is a microsoft-backed open approach. That is what has allowed AMD cards, even slightly older ones, to join in on the machine learning fun.

It's really shocking that AMD fails to extend support natively.

Workarounds such as DirectML claim to be the answer in unifying people with NVIDIA or AMD GPUs, but thus far it hasn't, with issues such as [this](https://github.com/microsoft/DirectML/issues/58) constantly popping up.

As nicolaslem points out, Arch does have community packages for ROCm, but that, unsurprisingly fails to lend support to many consumer GPUs. The best community support I have come across are [rocm-opencl](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mystro256/rocm-openc... [rocm-hip](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mystro256/rocm-hip/) for Fedora maintained by [mystro256](https://github.com/Mystro256), who is a single AMD employee.Thanks to him, my AMD GPU (Radeon 6800XT) hasn't completely gone to waste, and I was able to tinker with some things (Gaming isn't really up my alley).

Lately however, after beginning to work on DGX V100s and A100s, and using my older laptop with a GTX 1650, it was apparent how simple setting up CUDA was, and how easily I could experiment with it on my consumer card. Many have spoken about similar stories, and here's mine. Really hope AMD does a whole lot more, and doesn't exclusively keep their powerful GPUs for gaming.

You can use a NVidia gpu or the cpu to do the training but the cpu training is very very slow. For AMD graphics cards like the AMD Radeon VII the only solution is pytorch_directml but unfortunately there appears to be a bug that stops it working nn-morse and torch-directml memory leak? · Issue #355

Github: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectML

I find it quite funny, especially if you realize that something like 90% of the Stable Diffusion model fine-tunes out there are actually made for generating porn or images of females. Go to the website that has the most image generation models to verify this for yourself: https://civitai.com

WARNING don't visit this site on your work computer.

Remember The Website Obesity Crisis [1] article from 2015, since then [2] things only got worse, and it is been almost 10 years already (at the end of 2024).

Is it foolish to say that in 10 more years you wont be able to navigate the web on a circa 2015 PC ? If nothing changes seems like it.

My old macbook from 2013 with latest Firefox is already can not handle loading https://civitai.com web page with 23.98 MB of JavaScript, it is just hangs for half a minute while trying to render this disaster of web frontend.

[1] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

One of the most popular free AI image generators right now is Civitai. Civitai uses a cutting-edge AI model to turn text prompts into photorealistic images in seconds.

Soz, I don't like to cross link my accounts, especially with all this TSWift shenanigans going around. But, if you look at https://civitai.com/ plenty of people have links to their ko-fi accounts where you can commission them (heck you may even find me somewhere on there).

civitai.com ?

all the samples images on models at https://civitai.com/ have prompts included. I used to have a bunch of sites that list prompts bookmarked, but I lost all my bookmarks recently :(

https://civitai.com/ most people grab models here these days I think. At least I do. And yeah, make sure to put checkpoints in the model folder, and lora in the lora folder, and hit the refresh button and it should show up.

Go to civitai.com, look for images that look realistic, study their prompts and the models used to generate them.

Tons of models to pick from on Civitai. I have a bunch downloaded for making NPCs for DnD.