Quick Tips for PonyXL [Best settings] - Ai Image Generating

PonyXL seems to be kinda overwhelming.

In the last weeks, I spent most of my time going through all models of character, art-styles, and utility,... if you go to civitai.com you can find nearly 100,000 Ai-models for PonyXL... well I cannot test them all but!

THERE ARE THE BEST MAIN MODEL I FOUND SO FOR.

Checkpoints (main model):

3x3mixXLtypeB - https://civitai.com/models/431350/3x3mixxltypeb?modelVersionId=480549

• + Very fast (for rescaling as well)

• + half realistic

• + very good NSFW

• + characters look naturally older

• - VAE will break it (don't use vae)

• - maybe too realistic

• - not every character model responds well

Ceii Mix [PDXL] v1.0 - https://civitai.com/models/482488?modelVersionId=536595

• + perfect balance anime-realism

• + perfect NSFW

• - not the best responses for non-nude poses (very stationary)

SakuraSushi XL - https://civitai.com/models/488884/sakurasushi-xl?modelVersionId=543611

• + anime style

• + Every tested character looked well

• + very good nsfw

• - very slow

• - crashes when 2x+ rescaling!

• - not realistic

• - hard to change art-style (utility/tool model doesn't work much)

• - faded colors (VAE will fix it) if not -> time for Photoshop

Mala Anime Mix NSFW PonyXL - https://civitai.com/models/442163/mala-anime-mix-nsfw-ponyxl?modelVersionId=550933

+ anime style

+ very good nsfw

+ art-style changer based on model (for me it's good, for someone may not be)

- characters look younger

- not realistic

The standard resolution that gives me the best results:

• 616 x 616

• 536 x 688

• 560 x 656

Rescaling settings:

• Upscaler --- R-ESRGAN 4x+

• Upscale by --- 2.3x

• Hires steps --- 12 (less than 12 = bad hands!)

• Denoising strength --- 0.35 - 0.5 (the further character is bigger denoise you need)

Nvidia RTX 4070 / 4070ti / 3090 series: speed of generation

• version of SD ---- 616 x 616 image ---- 2.3x-rescale

• in SD1.5 ---- 3s ---- 10s

• PonySL ---- 7s ---- 15-90s (depends on the checkpoint, somehow)

You probably know this page about speed of GPUs: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

IT IS NOT ACCURATE! The numbers are for real-time calculation (for playing games,...) for AI-generating and 3D rendering it's completely different.

Look here: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/stable-diffusion-benchmarks

or here https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?group_by=device_name&blender_version=4.0.0

Simply bigger RAM faster gen.