Can my PC run Stable Diffusion, Flux and Wan?
Stable Diffusion 1.5 has 860M parameters and needs about 3 GB of graphics memory at full precision (FP16), with its working memory for a 512 × 512 image; about 2 GB at FP8, so it runs entirely on a 4 GB card or bigger.
| Model | Runs? | Time |
|---|
The model file and the working memory it needs on the card, with about 0.8 GB more kept for the driver and the screen. 8-bit (FP8 or Q8_0) looks almost the same as full precision; GGUF Q4 loses some fine detail.
| Precision | Model | On the card | Fits a card with |
|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 | 1.7 GB | 2.7 GB | 4 GB |
| FP8 | 0.9 GB | 1.9 GB | 4 GB |
The text encoder, CLIP ViT-L, reads your prompt first, about 0.25 GB at 8 bits; ComfyUI moves it off the card before drawing, so it needs system memory rather than graphics memory.
Still the base of thousands of fine-tuned models and LoRAs, and the lightest model here.
Time for a 512 × 512 image at 25 steps, at the largest precision that fits, in a PC with 32 GB of system memory.
| Graphics card | Runs? | Precision | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | On the card | FP16 | 3 s–5 s |
| RTX 4060 (8 GB) | On the card | FP16 | 2 s–4 s |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | On the card | FP16 | 2 s–3 s |
| RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB | On the card | FP16 | 1 s–3 s |
| RTX 4070 (12 GB) | On the card | FP16 | 1 s–2 s |
| RTX 5070 (12 GB) | On the card | FP16 | 1 s–2 s |
| RTX 4070 Ti SUPER (16 GB) | On the card | FP16 | under a second–2 s |
| RTX 5070 Ti (16 GB) | On the card | FP16 | under a second–2 s |
| RTX 3090 (24 GB) | On the card | FP16 | 1 s–2 s |
| RTX 4080 SUPER (16 GB) | On the card | FP16 | under a second–1 s |
| RTX 5080 (16 GB) | On the card | FP16 | under a second–1 s |
| RTX 4090 (24 GB) | On the card | FP16 | under a second |
| RTX 5090 (32 GB) | On the card | FP16 | under a second |
| Radeon RX 9070 XT (16 GB) | On the card | FP16 | — |
| Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24 GB) | On the card | FP16 | — |
| Arc B580 (12 GB) | On the card | FP16 | — |
AMD and Intel cards: whether it fits, but no time, which depends too much on the software.
| Made by | Runway and Stability AI |
|---|---|
| Released | October 2022 |
| Makes | 512 × 512 images |
| Parameters | 860M |
| Licence | CreativeML OpenRAIL-M |
Its files are on Hugging Face. ComfyUI runs it with a ready-made workflow; GGUF files need the ComfyUI-GGUF add-on. Bottleneck is not connected with Runway and Stability AI.
Image and video models are limited by the graphics card’s arithmetic rather than its memory speed, so each card’s speed here comes from its measured arithmetic in llama.cpp’s benchmark (the same figure the AI model calculator uses for reading prompts), and each model’s time per step is anchored to measured times: FLUX.1 dev at about 1.85 steps a second on an RTX 4090, SDXL at about 4.2 a second on an RTX 3090, and Wan 2.2 5B taking about nine minutes for a 720p clip on an RTX 4090, its makers’ own figure. Other models scale from those by size. Memory is the model at each precision plus its working memory at the usual resolution, with about 0.8 GB kept for the driver and the screen. Speeds are for NVIDIA cards; AMD and Intel cards run these models through ROCm, ZLUDA, DirectML or Intel’s own builds, whose speed varies too much with the software to estimate. A real time is usually within the range shown; speed-up add-ons such as fewer-step LoRAs, TensorRT or SageAttention make it faster.
Bottleneck’s free app reads your graphics card, how much of its memory other programs are holding, your memory’s speed and channels, and the settings that slow a PC down, and says how to fix each. Its AI models screen lists the chat models your PC runs, and checks one you already run with Ollama or LM Studio.
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