Quote - Dustrider's points are excellent.  I'd like to add also that another great benefit of Octane vs. Luxrender or some other engines is not only the speed difference, but also the ability to render biased OR unbiased lighting kernels in different "modes".  You can get Luxrender-like PathTracing, or GPU-optimized PMC kernel, which handle refractive/reflective caustics and other problematic physics more efficiently.  There's also a Direct Lighting mode, which is the fastest mode, and provides biased results, similar to Vray, but much, much  faster in most cases.  Seperate passes for compositing are also available (llike Z-depth pass), and render almost instantaneously.  It would be considered an impressive render engine, even if it weren't GPU based.

aye it is speed issues with REALITY that is forcing me to look elsewhere. I have seen octane renders that took 9 minutes that were SWEEEETTT

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