"Look at how positively they talk about Embree. None of them is actually even mentioning Octane or any other GPU based renderers as an alternative to embree or CPU based renderers."

"These guys are professionals. Some of them could be working on multi-million dollars projects, some of them could be award-winning artists with the potential of making it to the cover of 3D World Magazine."

These statements ALONE are enough to make me highly suspect of how fair and balanced your comparison of CPU and GPU would be.  You are suggesting that because they work with Modo or Lightwave that they are professionals working on million dollar projects and award-winning artists?  Seriously?

Just because there's no mention of Octane in those forums, you are saying it's NOT a professional package?

What about the dozens of professional, highly regarded artists in the Otoy forums who work with Maya, 3dsmax, and C4D, who DO believe in GPU rendering as the technology of the future, and that have already used it to produce award-winning shorts, and acclaimed renders?

The cover of 3DArtist magazine, which is the UK equivalent of 3DWorld,  has featured work that was rendered in Octane, by award-winning artists, and has reviewed the software, and offered the trial of it in their magazine, as part of their included CD.  So what does that say FOR the software, if your implications that people who "could" make the cover of 3DWorld aren't talking about it?

I don't know, I just think you really need to focus more on the positive, and less on the negative comparisons and somewhat misleading information if you want to win people's opinions and get Daz's ear.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.