perhaps this is derailing the thread a bit.. but lets think about cost reduction for a second, if you can produce say a commercial for 50% less now compared to years ago, just as an example, will that reduction in software/hardware cost equal more money in your pocket? probably not.
in other words, perhaps it's a good idea to at least tell your clients you are still stuck with a 5000$ a month electricity bill to do your rendering, when in reality you are just running a single box with 2 titans ;) On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Ed Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > On the economic advantages of redshift or other gpu renderers. > > My current workstations are Mac Pro 3.1s which are left over from the > company I shut down in 2009 (bootcamped into Windows). Essentially > worthless from a CPU standpoint. Putting a single $1000 titan gpu into one > of them makes it more efficient at rendering than any modern 16-core $8,000 > workstation running any CPU ray tracer. Putting 2 titans in them is like > having my old 162-core blade server renderfarm without the $5000/month > electric bill. Not to mention all the IT overhead and license costs. > > I have never seen a single piece of software (in concert with the > astonishing graphics hardware that is now so cheap and still getting > cheaper) have such a cost-reducing impact. > > Plus they are fanatically hard workers and great communicators. > -- Andreas Byström Weta Digital
