• Intel ARC Series
• Intel Flex Series
• Intel Max Series

iGPUs are not supported with IPEX, use OpenVINO with iGPUs.

Benchmarks for Intel ARC A770: https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic/wiki/Benchmark#intel-arc

BF16 is faster than FP16 in general.

Diffusers backend is 10%-25% faster than the original backend.

Disable your iGPU (if any, e.g. UHD or Iris Xe) in the device manager.

If you get random errors at the startup, it's probably from ipexrun.
Export DISABLE_IPEXRUN=1 to disable ipexrun.

• Install Intel GPU Driver.
• Install Git.
• Install Python 3.10 or 3.11.
• Open CMD in a folder you want to install SD.Next.

Install SD.Next from Github:

git clone https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic
cd automatic
.\webui.bat --use-ipex

Note: It will install the necessary libraries at the first run so it will take a while depending on your internet.

Use Ubuntu 23.04 or newer.

Note: Updating kernel is not neccesary for WSL.

Then add the package lists for Intel Level Zero Drivers:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y ca-certificates wget gpg
wget -qO - https://repositories.intel.com/gpu/intel-graphics.key | sudo gpg --dearmor --output /usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg] https://repositories.intel.com/gpu/ubuntu jammy client" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intel-gpu-jammy.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Then install the necessary packages:

sudo apt-get install intel-opencl-icd intel-level-zero-gpu level-zero git python3-pip python3-venv libgl1 libglib2.0-0 libgomp1 libjemalloc-dev

https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/issues/726

Install the necessary packages for Arch Linux:

pacman -S intel-compute-runtime level-zero-headers level-zero-loader git python-pip python-virtualenv jemalloc

Install SD.Next from Github:

git clone https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic
cd automatic
./webui.sh --use-ipex

Note: It will install the necessary libraries at the first run so it will take a while depending on your internet.