Jury still out. Had a scene hang up that I had rendered before. Granted that it was very high Q, and I did adjust the shadow samples, but it rendered before in 2 hours 24 minutes.

Will have to do more experimenting.

At any rate, the quality is definitely better. I did a low-Q render of the same scene, and it got rid of the neck blotchiness I had been experiencing even in the hi-Q render. So that's good.

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Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X/MSI MAG570 Tomahawk X570/Zotac Geforce GTX 1650 Super 4GB/32GB OLOy RAM

Software: Windows 10 Professional/Poser Pro 11/Photoshop/Postworkshop 3