SD.Next Release 2025-05-15

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SD.Next Release 2025-05-15

Curious how your system is performing?
Run a built-in benchmark and compare to over 15k unique results world-wide: Benchmark data!
From slowest 0.02 it/s running on 6th gen CPU without acceleration up to 275+ it/s running on tuned GH100 system!

Also, since quantization is becoming a necessity for almost all new models, see comparison of different quantization methods available in SD.Next: Quantization
Hint: Even if you may not need quantization for your current model, it may be worth trying it out as it can significantly improve performance!

For ZLUDA users, this update adds compatibility with with latest AMD Adrenaline drivers

Btw, last few releases have been smaller, but more regular so do check posts about previous releases as features do quickly add up!

• Wiki
  • Updates for: Quantization, NNCF, WSL, ZLUDA, ROCm
• Compute
  • ZLUDA: update to zluda==3.9.5 with torch==2.7.0
    Note: delete .zluda folder so that newest zluda will be installed if you are using the latest AMD Adrenaline driver
  • NNCF: added experimental support for direct INT8 MatMul
• Feature
  • Prompt Enhance: option to allow/disallow NSFW content
• Fixes
  • OpenVINO: force cpu device
  • Gradio: major cleanup and fixing defaults and ranges
  • Pydantic: update to api types
  • UI defaults: match correct prompt components

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