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[–] 56 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That quote was in the context of the 1981 personal computer market, and in that context is correct.

It’s like a game company CEO saying 12GB of video ram is enough in 2024 so we don’t all need an RTX 4090.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    12GB of video ram is enough in 2024

    And then Stable Diffusion showed up

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Im getting away with my 8gb for now.

    Its the language/text stuff that really needs like 30gb GPUs.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Im getting away with my 8gb for now.

    I don't think that you can do the current XL models with 8GB, even for low-resolution images. Maybe with --lowvram or something.

    I've got a 24GB RX 7900 XT and would render higher resolution images if I had the VRAM -- yeah, you can sometimes sort of get a similar effect by upscaling in tiles, but it's not really a replacement. And I am confident that even if they put a consumer card out with 128GB, someone will figure out some new clever extension that does something fascinating and useful...as long as one can devote a little more memory to it...

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