Pikachu - comparison (SD1.5 vs SDXL vs Flux)

Revisiting pikachu comparison from September 2023:
https://civitai.com/posts/612318

Back then I did only simple comparison. Now a bit more extensive one (SD1.5 vs SDXL vs Flux) with some popular (or used to be popular) models. All done on Seed 1 (CPU), 20 steps and 896x1152 (except for SD1.5 non-LCM samplers, where 448x576 + 2x hires w/ UltraSharp on 0.35 was used). Some individual images may be posted later, as posting everything would flood the feed and make it squeal with "pika pika" sounds too much...

Sharing my SD1.5 LCM trick again:
LCM may help with generating higher resolution images (like 896x1152) in SD1.5 that aren't "doubled", without need to rely on high-res fix. It doesn't always work and not on every model, but when it works, you may be surprised, as it can lead to interesting (sometimes quite scary) results...

DPM++ SDE & Restart take twice as long as other samplers used here, but to be perfectly honest, they're not always worth spending that much time (with same steps number), so you may try lowering number of steps for them.