Automatic1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI now works with Intel GPU hardware, thanks to the integration of Intel's OpenVINO toolkit that takes AI models and optimizes them to run on Intel hardware. We've re-tested the latest release of Stable Diffusion to see how much faster Intel's GPUs are compared to our previous results, with gains of 40 to 55 percent.
Stable Diffusion (that currently has our previous testing, though we're working on updating the results) is a deep-learning AI model used to generate images from text descriptions. What makes Stable Diffusion special is its ability to run on local consumer hardware. The AI community has plenty of projects out there, with Stable Diffusion WebUI being the most popular. It provides a browser interface that's easy to use and experiment with.
After months of work in the background (we've been hearing rumblings of this for a while now), the latest updates are now available for Intel Arc owners and provide a substantial boost to performance.
Check out the Stable Diffusion A1111 webui for Intel Silicon. Works with my A770 or can run on your CPU or iGPU. It's powered by OpenVINO, so its optimized.😃Example of image on the right, pure prompting. Left is same image with increase detail on the eyes using InPainting.… pic.twitter.com/zpbQOMvJF3August 17, 2023
