> Back then it was common to use 50+ steps for many of the common samplers. Current methods use a few steps like 1.
The "look how fast we can go" method (turbo model with 1 step and without CFG) is blindingly fast, but the quality is...nothing close to what was being done in normal 50+ steps with normal setitngs gens.
Realistically, even with Turbo+LCM, you're still going to 4+ steps (often 8+), with CFG, for reasonable one-generation quality anywhere close to the images people generated at 50+ steps without Turbo/LCM.
The "look how fast we can go" method (turbo model with 1 step and without CFG) is blindingly fast, but the quality is...nothing close to what was being done in normal 50+ steps with normal setitngs gens.
Realistically, even with Turbo+LCM, you're still going to 4+ steps (often 8+), with CFG, for reasonable one-generation quality anywhere close to the images people generated at 50+ steps without Turbo/LCM.
Which is still a big improvement in speed.