What is the workflow like vs Octane ? has anyone tested ? I mean i hear people comparing Redshift to Mentalray in matters of handling, personally i'm not a fan of MR interaction, but that might just be bias on account of the slowness, and the all around instability, and the crashing and the artefacts...
Are the nodes anything different to what you would usually get ? On 23 March 2014 05:00, phil harbath <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know much about mac pros, is that a pci-e 2 slot (or less?), > so even though you are putting pci-e 3 cards in an older slot you are still > getting that kind result? I have an computer about that age, if that > works, that would be a no brainer. > > *From:* Ed Manning <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:05 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Rendering alternative to mental ray needed.. > > 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. >
