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specimen 9 of 10 · the cold-start tax — what an idle gpu costs the first player

the flooded sea-vault (with the chat model resident)

3rd · warm

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the prompt, verbatim
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
the data sheet
checkpointalbedobaseXL_v21
loranone in the render graph
samplerdpmpp_2m / karras
steps12
cfg6.0
resolution768×768
seed305
render time1.88 smeasured from the render graph's own execution timestamps
machinetest rig B (24G)derived — the harness renders only through this rig's own local ComfyUI, and this experiment's every render predates the workstation's first archived render
archivetest rig B (24G) · ~/render-tests render archive
date2026-07-14 03:11:09
master filekeep_vault_s305.jpg
workflowpainted-real the graph itself is not in the archive, so there is nothing to download

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