the hi-res refine, with and without the chat model resident
a 2x refine pass run twice: once with the narrator's chat model holding vram, once after unloading it. the same picture, and a very different bill. this is the measurement behind the engine's co-residency posture.
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 · steps 64 · cfg 6.0 · size 1216×832
every cell opens its own specimen sheet: the render full size, its prompt verbatim, and every setting behind it.
- albedo 2x refine, gemma… — albedo 2x refine, gemma unloaded
hires smoke test
a colossal woman formed of ember and cooling lava, hundreds of feet tall, wading slowly through a night harbor city, the rooftops reaching only her knees, tiny lantern boats scattering around her ankles, seen from a distant rooftop across the harbor, her gown of falling sparks setting roofs aglow. dark fairytale, monumental scale, ember orange against indigo night, cinematic
source: 2048 pipeline smoke test 2026-07-11
| chat model resident or not | albedo 2x refine | albedo 2x refine, gemma… |
|---|---|---|
 albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 64 steps · 1216×832 · seed 92001 · 282.57s |  albedobaseXL_v21 · dpmpp_2m/karras · 64 steps · 1216×832 · seed 92002 · 80.65s |
↓ receipts.json — every image on this page with its full provenance, machine-readable.
painted by: albedobase xl 2.1 — OpenRAIL++-class, credit given