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 "experiment": "cold-start-cost",
 "title": "the cold-start tax \u2014 what an idle gpu costs the first player",
 "compares": "render order (cold vs warm)",
 "archive": "netloft-authored_s3, vram-coload_q8-gameplay",
 "columns": [
  "1st \u00b7 cold",
  "2nd \u00b7 warm",
  "3rd \u00b7 warm",
  "4th \u00b7 warm"
 ],
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   "row": "",
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   "prompt_source": "",
   "image": "img/full/the-net-loft-phrasing-a-1st-cold.webp",
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   "render_seconds": 62.23,
   "measured": true,
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   "id": "the-net-loft-phrasing-a-1st-cold",
   "tile": "img/the-net-loft-phrasing-a-1st-cold.webp",
   "shown_width": 768,
   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
   "at": "2026-07-14 07:32:28",
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   "archive_id": "netloft_A_s303",
   "cell_label": "",
   "sid": "the-net-loft-phrasing-a-1st-cold"
  },
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   "row": "",
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   "prompt_source": "",
   "image": "img/full/the-net-loft-phrasing-a-2nd-warm.webp",
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   "scheduler": "karras",
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   "cfg": 6.0,
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   "seed": 307,
   "render_seconds": 2.32,
   "measured": true,
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   "id": "the-net-loft-phrasing-a-2nd-warm",
   "tile": "img/the-net-loft-phrasing-a-2nd-warm.webp",
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   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
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   "cell_label": "",
   "sid": "the-net-loft-phrasing-a-2nd-warm"
  },
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   "row": "",
   "column": "3rd \u00b7 warm",
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   "prompt_source": "",
   "image": "img/full/the-net-loft-phrasing-a-3rd-warm.webp",
   "checkpoint": "albedobaseXL_v21.safetensors",
   "lora": [],
   "sampler": "dpmpp_2m",
   "scheduler": "karras",
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   "cfg": 6.0,
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   "height": 768,
   "seed": 311,
   "render_seconds": 2.67,
   "measured": true,
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   "id": "the-net-loft-phrasing-a-3rd-warm",
   "tile": "img/the-net-loft-phrasing-a-3rd-warm.webp",
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   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
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   "cell_label": "",
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   "row": "",
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   "prompt_source": "",
   "image": "img/full/the-net-loft-phrasing-b-1st-cold.webp",
   "checkpoint": "albedobaseXL_v21.safetensors",
   "lora": [],
   "sampler": "dpmpp_2m",
   "scheduler": "karras",
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   "cfg": 6.0,
   "width": 768,
   "height": 768,
   "seed": 303,
   "render_seconds": 2.46,
   "measured": true,
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   "id": "the-net-loft-phrasing-b-1st-cold",
   "tile": "img/the-net-loft-phrasing-b-1st-cold.webp",
   "shown_width": 768,
   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
   "at": "2026-07-14 07:33:15",
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   "archive_id": "netloft_B_s303",
   "cell_label": "",
   "sid": "the-net-loft-phrasing-b-1st-cold"
  },
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   "row": "",
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   "prompt_source": "",
   "image": "img/full/the-net-loft-phrasing-b-2nd-warm.webp",
   "checkpoint": "albedobaseXL_v21.safetensors",
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   "measured": true,
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   "tile": "img/the-net-loft-phrasing-b-2nd-warm.webp",
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   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
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   "cell_label": "",
   "sid": "the-net-loft-phrasing-b-2nd-warm"
  },
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   "prompt_source": "",
   "image": "img/full/the-net-loft-phrasing-b-3rd-warm.webp",
   "checkpoint": "albedobaseXL_v21.safetensors",
   "lora": [],
   "sampler": "dpmpp_2m",
   "scheduler": "karras",
   "steps": 16,
   "cfg": 6.0,
   "width": 768,
   "height": 768,
   "seed": 311,
   "render_seconds": 2.28,
   "measured": true,
   "origin": "test rig B (24G) \u00b7 ~/render-tests render archive",
   "master": "netloft_B_s311.jpg",
   "id": "the-net-loft-phrasing-b-3rd-warm",
   "tile": "img/the-net-loft-phrasing-b-3rd-warm.webp",
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   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
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   "workflow": "painted-real",
   "archive_id": "netloft_B_s311",
   "cell_label": "",
   "sid": "the-net-loft-phrasing-b-3rd-warm"
  },
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   "subject": "the flooded sea-vault (with the chat model resident)",
   "row": "",
   "column": "1st \u00b7 cold",
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   "prompt_source": "",
   "image": "img/full/the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-1st-cold.webp",
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   "scheduler": "karras",
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   "cfg": 6.0,
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   "height": 768,
   "seed": 303,
   "render_seconds": 53.79,
   "measured": true,
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   "id": "the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-1st-cold",
   "tile": "img/the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-1st-cold.webp",
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   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
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   "cell_label": "",
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   "image": "img/full/the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-2nd-warm.webp",
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   "measured": true,
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   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
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   "cell_label": "",
   "sid": "the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-2nd-warm"
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   "subject": "the flooded sea-vault (with the chat model resident)",
   "row": "",
   "column": "3rd \u00b7 warm",
   "prompt": "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",
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   "height": 768,
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   "measured": true,
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   "id": "the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-3rd-warm",
   "tile": "img/the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-3rd-warm.webp",
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   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
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   "cell_label": "",
   "sid": "the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-3rd-warm"
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   "subject": "the flooded sea-vault (with the chat model resident)",
   "row": "",
   "column": "4th \u00b7 warm",
   "prompt": "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",
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   "measured": true,
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   "master": "keep_vault_s306.jpg",
   "id": "the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-4th-warm",
   "tile": "img/the-flooded-sea-vault-with-the-chat-model-resident-4th-warm.webp",
   "shown_width": 768,
   "shown_height": 768,
   "machine": "",
   "at": "2026-07-14 03:11:50",
   "workflow": "painted-real",
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   "cell_label": "",
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 ],
 "lede": "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 \u2014 and it is why what else is resident on the gpu is an engine decision, not a detail.",
 "source": "render-tests",
 "tests": [
  "netloft-authored_s3",
  "vram-coload_q8-gameplay"
 ]
}