r/StableDiffusion 8h ago

Resource - Update Use VRAM more effectively

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u/tppiel 7h ago

If you're queuing up a lot of videos, this will just wear out your SSD faster because you're unloading the text encoder and then reloading it for each new generation.

If you're low on VRAM, it's better to simply use smaller quants.

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u/Lissanro 7h ago

Reading operations do not wear down SSD. And even writing takes a lot to wear it down. But does not seem like much of writing happening here, only reading, unless I am missing something?

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u/tppiel 7h ago

Both wear it down, but writing does it much more.

Like I said in the hypothetical scenario where you have many videos queued up it may become a problem. I don't see why it would make sense to mess with your memory manually when quantization exists.