the cold-start tax — what an idle gpu costs the first player
identical prompts, back to back, differing only in seed. the first render in each row pays for the checkpoint coming off disk and into vram; every one after it does not. sixty-two seconds against two. this is the single largest number in the archive that has nothing to do with image quality — and it is why what else is resident on the gpu is an engine decision, not a detail.
every render on this page was painted on test rig B (24G) — provably, two ways: the harness that made them renders only through that rig's own local ComfyUI, and every timestamp predates the workstation's first archived render.
← the research index the licence ledgercheckpoint albedobaseXL_v21 · sampler dpmpp_2m · scheduler karras · cfg 6.0 · size 768×768
every cell opens its own specimen sheet: the render full size, its prompt verbatim, and every setting behind it.
the net-loft, phrasing A
interior of a tar-dark net-loft, coils of rope stacked by weight under black rafters, knot-code tags on every hank, winter pegs of folded nets along one wall and a single drift-net hung apart untouched, one small window of fog-blue light, one thread of amber
| render order (cold vs warm) | 1st · cold | 2nd · warm | 3rd · warm | 4th · warm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 16 steps · 768×768 · seed 303 · 62.23s |  albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 16 steps · 768×768 · seed 307 · 2.32s |  albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 16 steps · 768×768 · seed 311 · 2.67s | — |
the net-loft, phrasing B
interior of a fishing net-loft under tar-black rafters, heavy coils of rope stacked on the plank floor, folded nets hung on wooden wall pegs, one lone drift-net hung apart on the far wall, small knot-tags on every rope hank, one small fog-blue window, one thread of amber lamplight
| render order (cold vs warm) | 1st · cold | 2nd · warm | 3rd · warm | 4th · warm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 16 steps · 768×768 · seed 303 · 2.46s |  albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 16 steps · 768×768 · seed 307 · 2.21s |  albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 16 steps · 768×768 · seed 311 · 2.28s | — |
the flooded sea-vault (with the chat model resident)
a vast pale mass of conger-eel coils and drowned cable filling a flooded sea-vault, one slow pale circle that could be an eye or a porthole, black water, deep fog-blue and faint amber, no text, no face
| render order (cold vs warm) | 1st · cold | 2nd · warm | 3rd · warm | 4th · warm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 12 steps · 768×768 · seed 303 · 53.79s |  albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 12 steps · 768×768 · seed 304 · 1.92s |  albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 12 steps · 768×768 · seed 305 · 1.88s |  albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 12 steps · 768×768 · seed 306 · 2.68s |
↓ receipts.json — every image on this page with its full provenance, machine-readable.
painted by: albedobase xl 2.1 — OpenRAIL++-class, credit given