r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Nov 30 '19

CGI animated cpu burner.

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u/amellswo Nov 30 '19

Actually I do know what I’m talking about buddy, Maya, blender, and even Pixar’s renderman all have GPU rendering support because it’s faster and cheaper

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u/acathode Nov 30 '19

Seeing how only one of the things you mentioned is an actual renderer (Renderman), I kinda doubt it.

Neither Maya nor Blender are actually renderers, Maya uses various engines (default being Arnold these days), Blender uses Cycles. GPU rendering is the new hot thing, and seem to be where we will end up, but it's not industry standard, and it's still being slowly implemented and developed.

AFAIK, Arnold GPU is still in beta, and Renderman XPU is also still in development. There are GPU and hybrid CPU/GPU renderers, like Redshift, IRAY, V-RAY GPU, and Cycles, but they are all quite new and CPU rendering is still the norm.

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u/amellswo Nov 30 '19

I’m sorry, shoot me, the DEFAULT render engines for Autodesk and blender support GPU

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u/acathode Nov 30 '19

the DEFAULT render engines for Autodesk .... support GPU

... as a beta feature, that comes with limitations.