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## Good choices to start with
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## Speed?
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On an A40 (plenty of VRAM), everything except the model identical,
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## How is this optimised?
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- Tests on using bitsandbytes quantizations showed they did not perform as well as the equivalent sized GGUF quants
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- Different quantizations of different parts of a layer gave significantly worse results
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## Good choices to start with
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- 8_2 is a good choice for 16 GB cards if you want to add LoRAs etc
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- 9_2 fits on a 16 GB card
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## Speed?
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the time taken to generate an image (30 steps, deis sampler) was about 65% longer than for the full model.
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Quantised models will generally be slower because the weights have to be converted back into a native torch form when they are needed.
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## How is this optimised?
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- Costs were evaluated for the original Flux.1-dev model. They are probably essentially the same for finetunes
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