stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 vs stable-diffusion-3.5-medium-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 19 August 2026.

stabilityai · A · Open weights
Params
2.6 B
Context
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30d
4.6 M
openrail++ licence · conditional
second-state · B · Open weights
Params
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Context
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30d
17 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 stable-diffusion-3.5-medium-GGUF
Parameters 2.6 B —
Architecture — —
Context length — —
Licence openrail++ other
Commercial use Conditional Unknown
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 4,649,928 16,960
Downloads all time 131.4 M 148 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-07-25 2024-11-23

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

4.7 M16 K
stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 stable-diffusion-3.5-medium-GGUF

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

stable-diffusion-3.5-medium-GGUF · Q4_0 3.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
stable-diffusion-3.5-medium-GGUF · fp16 18.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 · fp16 39.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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