sd-extension-system-info VS SHARK

I've been using both SD and various LLM on linux without any issue and have done so for months. Windows support is also starting to roll out slowly, with koboldcpp-rocm recently giving me 20-25+t/s for a13B even on windows. you can see what SD performance is like on sites like these. those numbers roughly match what i get on my RX6800 as well (8t/s).

That seems a lot worse than a 2060 SUPER with PyTorch in A1111.

https://vladmandic.github.io/sd-extension-system-info/pages/... (search for 2060 SUPER)

But usually A1111 users use benchmark on this extension https://github.com/vladmandic/sd-extension-system-info

AMD SD = Setup Diaster? it was quite troublesome googling the few linux/amdgpu/rocm/sd vers/configs/params posts online. Also the whole PC may hang during generation which is bad for the harddisk. Your card is way more powerful so may not hang like mine. People are getting 8it/s https://vladmandic.github.io/sd-extension-system-info/pages/benchmark.html

According to system info benchmark, M40 is like 1-2 it/s and P4 is barely better than that.

Anyway to properly "benchmark" the impacts different switches on your image generation speed, it is better to use the benchmarking utility from extension https://github.com/vladmandic/sd-extension-system-info (it also creates a very handy table of results from other users at https://vladmandic.github.io/sd-extension-system-info/pages/benchmark.html for you to compare with.

I can see that the top performance benchmark results on SD WebUI Benchmark Data (using RTX 4090), are obtained through WSL2 running Automatic1111 on a Linux dist and Python 3.10.11, along with PyTorch 2.1.0.dev+cu121 (like benchmark id: 4126)

You should be able to compare based on the published benchmarks, just replicate the settings based on what's reported https://vladmandic.github.io/sd-extension-system-info/pages/benchmark.html

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui, https://github.com/nod-ai/SHARK, those are the repos for the open source tools mentioned. u/CeFurkan has really nice tutorial videos on YouTube for stable diffusion. Automatic1111 is the most popular open source stable diffusion ui and has the biggest open source plug-in ecosystem currently. Nvidia’s compute driver is separate from normal driver and called cuda. Amd’s compute driver is called rocm. Most windows programs like games use apis like directx, Vulkan,metal, web gpu and not cuda. Most ml code was originally intended to run in on scientific computing systems that were Linux. Today the traditional windows gpu apis are tying to get better at gpu ml supports. Amd has no official windows ml code support and is Hoping that other developers figure it out for them but amd made their ml driver open source but no support for consumer graphics cards. Nvidia is proprietary ml driver but guaranteed support across all cards including consumer

I got it working using SHARK with an AMD RX 480 on Windows 10.

Here the link for shark, faster (uses vulkan) than automatic1111 with directml but has less functions https://github.com/nod-ai/SHARK

I would recommend trying out Nod AI's Shark (That is the link for the most recent 786.exe release), and see how it works for you. From others I've read, it does 512x512 pics at around 3 it/s, which I know isn't mind blowing, but it's good enough to do a pic in about 30 seconds.

Problem solve, i had it to work i simply put this nod's ai shark exe in my stabble diffusion folder and launch it instead of Webui-user -> Release nod.ai SHARK 20230623.786 · nod-ai/SHARK (github.com)

How does it compare with Shark SD (I am not affiliated with it in any way)? (https://github.com/nod-ai/SHARK)

you should if you want to run SD on your card https://github.com/nod-ai/SHARK

Forgive me for not reading you whole comment. I suspect you're version of the SD eb UI doesn't recognize the AMD GPU., so you're using the CPU. AMD GPUs only work with a few web UIs. Try Nod.ai's Shark variant