From 4e13bf4cd977d99a2932289f58acf284934bd687 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Lui <502929+simonlui@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:22:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md for Intel GPUs.
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README.md | 28 ++++++++++------------------
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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ ComfyUI lets you design and execute advanced stable diffusion pipelines using a
## Get Started
#### [Desktop Application](https://www.comfy.org/download)
-- The easiest way to get started.
+- The easiest way to get started.
- Available on Windows & macOS.
#### [Windows Portable Package](#installing)
@@ -211,27 +211,19 @@ This is the command to install the nightly with ROCm 6.4 which might have some p
### Intel GPUs (Windows and Linux)
-(Option 1) Intel Arc GPU users can install native PyTorch with torch.xpu support using pip (currently available in PyTorch nightly builds). More information can be found [here](https://pytorch.org/docs/main/notes/get_start_xpu.html)
-
-1. To install PyTorch nightly, use the following command:
+(Option 1) Intel Arc GPU users can install native PyTorch with torch.xpu support using pip. More information can be found [here](https://pytorch.org/docs/main/notes/get_start_xpu.html)
+
+1. To install PyTorch xpu, use the following command:
+
+```pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/xpu```
+
+This is the command to install the Pytorch xpu nightly which might have some performance improvements:
```pip install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/xpu```
-2. Launch ComfyUI by running `python main.py`
-
-
(Option 2) Alternatively, Intel GPUs supported by Intel Extension for PyTorch (IPEX) can leverage IPEX for improved performance.
-1. For Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics utilizing IPEX, create a conda environment and use the commands below:
-
-```
-conda install libuv
-pip install torch==2.3.1.post0+cxx11.abi torchvision==0.18.1.post0+cxx11.abi torchaudio==2.3.1.post0+cxx11.abi intel-extension-for-pytorch==2.3.110.post0+xpu --extra-index-url https://pytorch-extension.intel.com/release-whl/stable/xpu/us/ --extra-index-url https://pytorch-extension.intel.com/release-whl/stable/xpu/cn/
-```
-
-For other supported Intel GPUs with IPEX, visit [Installation](https://intel.github.io/intel-extension-for-pytorch/index.html#installation?platform=gpu) for more information.
-
-Additional discussion and help can be found [here](https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/discussions/476).
+1. visit [Installation](https://intel.github.io/intel-extension-for-pytorch/index.html#installation?platform=gpu) for more information.
### NVIDIA
@@ -352,7 +344,7 @@ Generate a self-signed certificate (not appropriate for shared/production use) a
Use `--tls-keyfile key.pem --tls-certfile cert.pem` to enable TLS/SSL, the app will now be accessible with `https://...` instead of `http://...`.
-> Note: Windows users can use [alexisrolland/docker-openssl](https://github.com/alexisrolland/docker-openssl) or one of the [3rd party binary distributions](https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries) to run the command example above.
+> Note: Windows users can use [alexisrolland/docker-openssl](https://github.com/alexisrolland/docker-openssl) or one of the [3rd party binary distributions](https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries) to run the command example above.
If you use a container, note that the volume mount `-v` can be a relative path so `... -v ".\:/openssl-certs" ...` would create the key & cert files in the current directory of your command prompt or powershell terminal.
## Support and dev channel