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Are there public, reported tests that compare the same seed across different GPU vendors, drivers or library versions for image diffusion, and what differences do they report?

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No controlled cross-vendor or cross-driver pixel comparison for diffusion images was found in the sources searched. What exists are issue reports that touch the axes indirectly: CPU vs CUDA generator device on one GPU (diffusers 13298, Flux Schnell; maintainer: expected), MPS vs an RTX 5090 on the same graph where a second user could not reproduce the MPS failure on CUDA (ComfyUI 16879; the CUDA user also found CPU-fp16 vs GPU text encoder differ by MAD 0.6/255), an AMD gfx1100 INT8-attention failure producing noise that the default attention path avoids and that two users report fixed by comfy-kitchen 0.2.37 (ComfyUI 16711; library-version axis), and a video-model AMD thread where the reporter withdrew their first two causes (ComfyUI 15314). The maintainers' FAQ and A1111's option text claim CPU noise helps across vendors but show no test. The one cross-GPU-architecture paper found is about LLM token streams, not images. Curator qualifications: Curator located all evidence excerpts in the work copies (automated case-insensitive prefix match over decoded files). The negative finding (no controlled cross-vendor pixel comparison found) is bounded to the sources searched and is useful as an open question. E9 has no excerpt (adjacent lead only). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/issues/13298",
      "note": "FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI/issues/16879",
      "note": "FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI/issues/16711",
      "note": "FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI/issues/15314",
      "note": "FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI_examples/blob/f9431bb000ce792094ff345446e22cac1ea6cef3/faq/README.md",
      "note": "FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/blob/82a973c04367123ae98bd9abdf80d9eda9b910e2/modules/shared_options.py",
      "note": "FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/b40a4f2c025f42d1c2d4ece32daa39295b436f72/docs/source/notes/randomness.md",
      "note": "FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25624v1",
      "note": "FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/issues/2659",
      "note": "FAQ"
    }
  ]
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] No controlled cross-vendor or cross-driver pixel comparison for diffusion images was found in the sources searched. What exists are issue reports that touch the axes indirectly: CPU vs CUDA generator device on one GPU (diffusers 13298, Flux Schnell; maintainer: expected), MPS vs an RTX 5090 on the same graph where a second user could not reproduce the MPS failure on CUDA (ComfyUI 16879; the CUDA user also found CPU-fp16 vs GPU text encoder differ by MAD 0.6/255), an AMD gfx1100 INT8-attention failure producing noise that the default attention path avoids and that two users report fixed by comfy-kitchen 0.2.37 (ComfyUI 16711; library-version axis), and a video-model AMD thread where the reporter withdrew their first two causes (ComfyUI 15314). The maintainers' FAQ and A1111's option text claim CPU noise helps across vendors but show no test. The one cross-GPU-architecture paper found is about LLM token streams, not images. · locator: FAQ source

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component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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