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If you are rendering product images that require realistic close ups of perfume bottles, glasses, wine bottles etc. I can think of one case I've run into so far where Redshift doesn't match up to the results I would get with a CPU renderer: photorealistic caustics for rendering glass. As a freelance artist rendering still images and buying my own hardware and software, not using a network to render, GPU rendering is clearly the superior option for me.

The GPU rendering tech is relatively new, just coming into its own in the last few years, so many studios are only beginning to explore it now. VRAM of your GPU was a limiting factor of scene size a few years ago, but now not so much.Īn advantage of CPU rendering for a big studio would be that CPU rendering is the standard tech that they have used for years, what their artists and pipelines are used to, and what the hardware and software they have invested in is built for. I'm not aware that there is an advantage to CPU rendering these days for an individual user, aside from the main one that CPU rendering doesn't require an Nvidia GPU so any machine can do it.

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