Rendering engines are tricky to benchmark when they are based on different algorithms and parameters. I tried my own test once, an HDRI scene with a model of a car, and tried to make the results look as close as possible. Carrara actually ran slower than Vue in high quality models for some settings. Also remember that Vue just came out with this new rendering engine. Carrara had time to tweak theirs :) Just don't give up on Vue yet.... there a lot of room for performance improvements.

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