Feb 10, 2025

Tags: easydiffusion, torchruntime, sdkit

Spent the last week or two getting torchruntime fully integrated into Easy Diffusion, and making sure that it handles all the edge-cases.

Easy Diffusion now uses torchruntime to automatically install the best-possible version of torch (on the users’ computer) and support a wider variety of GPUs (as well as older GPUs). And it uses a GPU-agnostic device API, so Easy Diffusion will automatically support additional GPUs when they are supported by torchruntime.

Jan 28, 2025

Tags: easydiffusion, sdkit, freebird, worklog

Continued to test and fix issues in sdkit, after the change to support DirectML. The change is fairly intrusive, since it removes direct references to torch.cuda with a layer of abstraction.

Fixed a few regressions, and it now passes all the regression tests for CPU and CUDA support (i.e. existing users). Will test for DirectML next, although it will fail (with out-of-memory) for anything but the simplest tests (since DirectML is quirky with memory allocation).

Jan 27, 2025

Tags: easydiffusion, sdkit

Worked on adding support for DirectML in sdkit. This allows AMD GPUs and Integrated GPUs to generate images on Windows.

DirectML seems like it’s really inefficient with memory though. So for now it only manages to generate images using SD 1.5. XL and larger models fail to generate, even though I have a 12 GB of VRAM in my graphics card.