Pretty much what
@Baraadmirer posted. Flux is still really neat but limited. I, personally, don’t generate a lot of smut so being able to use GGUFs and prompt naturally feels awesome. Flux is great ant creating surreal and beautiful landscapes, which is my primary application.
Illustrious is super powerful out of the box and is definitely worth tinkering with. Very anime heavy, but it is also very sane. Like mentioned above, I can easily prompt to have a ln armor-clad dude swinging a war hammer by just describing what’s on my mind. Most of the models I’ve tried handle the generation of intricate details, hands and facial features quite well. I’m impressed. I haven’t touched any PonyXL stuff since September.
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Edit: re: model unloading. I experience this in Comfy, but not A1111/Forge.