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		jclardy on Sept 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU Is there a proper term to encapsulate M1/M2 Macs now that we have the M2? IE Apple Silicon Macs works but is a bit long. MX Macs? M-Series? ARM Macs?

qayxc on Sept 1, 2022 | [–]

M-series sounds great, IMHO.

pavlov on Sept 1, 2022 | | [–]

"uname -m" returns "arm64" on these computers, so you could say macOS on arm64.

fragmede on Sept 1, 2022 | [–]

The backend, as contributed by Apple is called MPS.

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