in my opinion, Vue and Octane are too different in purpose, applications, pros and cons, system requirements, etcetera to make meaningful mutual comparisons in just price / performance / render result alone.

But meanly, and that is/was the purpose of this thread, I would welcome statements to be supported by investigations, facts, tests and numbers. Does speed increase mean: ten times faster, or just +20%.

All figures depend on all sorts of settings and influences, and may half, quarter, double, whatever. The essence is: will that alter any of the conclusions? In my view, it will not.

For instance: I did try all sorts of settings in Octane, and for my (first) scene I needed 60 mins at least to get a "visually noise free" result. Which is a 25% increase on the 80 mins of the Path Tracing with defaults. Impressive perhaps, but it doesn't bring the Octane performance numbers any significant step closer to the Vue ones, for those who care.

For instance: in the Advanced Animation settings Vue offers a plethora on animation flicker reduction options, to get satisfying results with hardly loss of speed. The issue is well understood and the solutions are adequate. Just google "Vue animation flicker reduction" and you're there.
For Poser, the solution to avoid / handle animation flicker for IDL renders is presented in the manual as well, but reduces renderspeed considerably (render all frames single threaded on the same machine).

So folks, do try to avoid factual statements without sufficient proof or without numbers and testresults. Please. In this forum thread at least.

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