Here are some details from testing I did a while ago:
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Paul Griswold < [email protected]> wrote: > There was a discussion on the RS forums about it. I don't recall the > numbers, though. I don't think the speed of the PCIe slot made a huge > difference. It's really all about the speed of the card. > > Also, although it doesn't load the entire scene into your card's memory, > the more memory your card has, the better it is. > > But overall, for the type of work I'm mainly doing these days, it's > extremely fast. In fact, it's so fast that I was finding the bottleneck > was the time taken to export the mesh to Redshift, not rendering. Redshift > has a proxy system like Vray & Arnold, but you have to manually create > proxies per object & my scene had hundreds and hundreds of objects, so I > didn't have time to create them. Therefore, it was creating a renderable > mesh per frame - so on a frame that took 28 seconds to render, 20 seconds > was spent exporting the mesh and 8 seconds were spent on rendering. But > again, it's a beta and they're continuing to improve things like the proxy > system. > > Once I'm caught up I'm hoping to try rendering the classroom scene and see > how it does. > > -Paul > > > ᐧ >
