Body: <p>If I am only interested in running Stable Diffusion, using pre-trained weights, to generate images, are there any advantages to using a GPU with more Tensor cores?  Or will any CUDA-compatible GPU perform equivalently on this task?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Yes exactly, specifically this implementation: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion
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Comments.Text: Can you please provide a reference that describes this "stable diffusion"? Are you referring to [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion)?
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Title: Do tensor cores provide advantages for running Stable Diffusion or only for training?
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ThreadText: # Do tensor cores provide advantages for running Stable Diffusion or only for training?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-01-18)
  
  If I am only interested in running Stable Diffusion, using pre-trained weights, to generate images, are there any advantages to using a GPU with more Tensor cores? Or will any CUDA-compatible GPU perform equivalently on this task?
  
  **Tags:** gpu, hardware, diffusion-models
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Can you please provide a reference that describes this "stable diffusion"? Are you referring to [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion)?  
  > **username_0**: Yes exactly, specifically this implementation: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion  
  
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