SDXL-Lightning
SDXL-Lightning is a lightning-fast text-to-image generation model. It can generate high-quality 1024px images in a few steps. For more information, please refer to our research paper: SDXL-Lightning: Progressive Adversarial Diffusion Distillation. We open-source the model as part of the research.
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Can you run it?
Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.
| File | Quant | Size | Est. VRAM | Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB |
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| model.safetensors | fp16 | 49.5 GB | 54.9 GB | ❌ Won’t fit |
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.
Specifications
- Licence
- openrail++
- First seen on the Hub
- 2024-02-20
- Training datasets
- undisclosed
- Added to our catalog
- 2026-07-28
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