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przemoc | 9 years ago

Just out of curiosity (it's not my field), what are those 3 renderers that matter right now?

Somehow I read your comment as V-Ray is not among them as being last-gen. I remember that years ago there was a lot of buzz regarding Arnold (and it was justified to some extent AFAIR, at least judging by opinions of pleased 3D crowd), but maybe it's last-gen too now? Many years ago there was Brazil, but quick googling shows it's only for Rhino now? I haven't heard about Redshift till now, though.

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gt_|9 years ago

The 3 GPU renderers that matter are: V-Ray RT, Octane, Redshift

CPU renderers are a different story but Arnold is right up there with V-Ray. CPU renderers are tried and true, reliable and robust.

V-Ray is the only company making both CPU and GPU renderers. The GPU version can render most of the same shaders but the backward compatibility requirements slow it's progress. It's OpenCL support is always behind CUDA as well.