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How to run Stable Diffusion on a Mac
Here are some easy options on how to run Stable Diffusion on a Mac with Apple Silicon:
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Features
- Apple’s Core ML Stable Diffusion implementation to achieve maximum performance and speed on Apple Silicon based Macs while reducing memory requirements
- Extremely fast and memory efficient (~150MB with Neural Engine)
- Runs well on all Apple Silicon Macs by fully utilizing Neural Engine
- Generate images locally and completely offline
- Generate images based on an existing image (commonly known as Image2Image)
- Generate images using ControlNet
- Generated images are saved with prompt info inside EXIF metadata (view in Finder’s Get Info window)
- Convert generated images to high resolution (using RealESRGAN)
- Autosave & restore images
- Use custom Stable Diffusion Core ML models
- No worries about pickled models
- macOS native app using SwiftUI
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