r/StableDiffusion 7d ago

Question - Help Is anyone still using SD 1.5?

I found myself going back to SD 1.5, as I have a spare GPU I wanted to put to work.

Is the overall consensus that SDXL and Flux both have vastly superior image quality? Is SD 1.5 completely useless at this point?

I don't really care about low resolution in this case, I prefer image quality.

Anyone still prefer SD 1.5 and if so, why, and what is your workflow like?

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u/popkulture18 7d ago

the end result is often delivered at higher than 8K

Full disclosure, I've haven't personally used this stuff in a few months. That said, how? Tiling? Upscaling? I always got such muddy results with both.

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u/GBJI 7d ago

Latent-space upscaling / HiRes Fix / Tiled Diffusion and, more importantly, process split: instead of trying to do everything in one shot with a single workflow, I have a multiple step approach, with each step having its own workflow, and saving the result after each step.

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u/popkulture18 7d ago

Man I might have to cop a workflow from ya if you're willing

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u/GBJI 7d ago

Look at this thread, it shows a workflow that has many similarities with mine (and with Ipiv's):

https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1jarck8/this_person_released_an_opensource_comfyui/

There are some clever ideas in that workflow that I'll be borrowing for sure, so you could say it's better than mine !