Rendering Speed, Normal?

davidjones8418

Hello everybody,

I have rendered a few bits and pieces and it didn't take too long. Then I got ambitious and hit a brick wall ! So now I am wondering whether I am looking at this in the right way.

If you are composing an elaborate scene, awesome environment, hd models, etc then presumably you aren't rendering, seeing whether you like it, tweaking it and re-rendering.. not if it takes hours to render it.

Do you render overnight? Or is my machine just way too weak?

I have a GeForce GTX 1660 (6Gb), AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor, 6 Gb Ram.

Is this way below what (most) other people here are using? I could upgrade the GPU but 3 hours, 6 hours, 9 hours.. it's still overnight. So unless the performance increase would be tremendous..

How do you know what it is going to look like? Or is it just experience?

dannybeattie21

What are you using to do your rendering? Is it just CUDA/GPU or are you using your CPU aswell? You can check in Render Settings > Advanced > Hardware tab > Devices.

For big renders with resource-hungry assets such as characters at SubD Level 4/5 I typically set my max render time to 30000 seconds, so just over 8 hours and that's with a 1080ti. Use iRay preview view mode to check how it will look and then let it render whilst you do something else (like sleep)

You can optimise things to get faster renders but these changes are typically only giving you slight boosts in render speeds. The reality of it is that quality renders take time and there's no other way around it.

davidjones8418

dannybeattie21 said:

What are you using to do your rendering? Is it just CUDA/GPU or are you using your CPU aswell? You can check in Render Settings > Advanced > Hardware tab > Devices.

For big renders with resource-hungry assets such as characters at SubD Level 4/5 I typically set my max render time to 30000 seconds, so just over 8 hours and that's with a 1080ti. Use iRay preview view mode to check how it will look and then let it render whilst you do something else (like sleep)

You can optimise things to get faster renders but these changes are typically only giving you slight boosts in render speeds. The reality of it is that quality renders take time and there's no other way around it.

I am using CPU and CUDA/GPU by the look of it.

You have answered my question though, so thank you. I'm going to need a bigger boat !