diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8e40dc68..3ce53db6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -248,3 +248,17 @@ print("Seed was: " + str(processed.seed)) display(processed.images, processed.seed, processed.info) ``` + +### `--lowvram` +Optimizations for GPUs with low VRAM. This should make it possible to generate 512x512 images on videocards with 4GB memory. + +The original idea of those ideas is by basujindal: https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion. Model is separated into modules, +and only one module is kept in GPU memory; when another module needs to run, the previous is removed from GPU memory. + +It should be obvious but the nature of those optimizations makes the processing run slower -- about 10 times slower +compared to normal operation on my RTX 3090. + +This is an independent implementation that does not require any modification to original Stable Diffusion code, and +with all code concenrated in one place rather than scattered around the program. + +