Forgot to mention the amazing Redshift support. Those guys really rock! ------------------------------------------------------- Emilio Hernández VFX & 3D animation.
2014-10-03 13:43 GMT-05:00 Ed Manning <[email protected]>: > Ditto. total gamechanger. Redshift is literally the only thing that kept > me from closing up shop. I had priced out new multicore render nodes, and > licenses for VRay and Arnold, as well as testing Arion, Octane and more > obscure options, and the numbers just didn't make sense. I was going to > just not be able to continue doing the type of remote work my clients > expect on the schedules they need, and make enough money for it to be worth > doing. > > For example, I'm just putting 2 new render machines online - they're > refurb Dell workstations that cost $450 each, with an additional 16GB RAM, > ($190 each), an auxiliary drive bay power supply ($25!) and 2 GTX 780s > ($850/pair). So each render node's hardware was about $1500, the Redshift > license is $500, and I get much better performance from each node than I > see from brand-new $10K 20-core CPU render boxes. > > > > >
