People have been focused on getting stable diffusion running well on M1 macs because their graphics systems have so much more horsepower than the Intel macs. The M1s also have a fast memory sharing architecture for graphics, and this needs an absolute minimum of around 8gb of vram — many Intel macs just won’t be able to handle this.

SD on an Intel mac with Vega graphics runs pretty well though — I think it ran at something like ~3-5 iterations/s for me, which is decent. I ran either https://github.com/magnusviri/stable-diffusion or https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion which have MPS support

That's good to know as I just got a good deal on one and was wondering if the AMD GPU would be useful or if I needed to start planning for an eGPU with some NVidia silicon. Thanks!

From the website:

> Will this be available on Intel Macs?

> Yep, I'm working on making it compatible with older Macs.