Here is a sample of various animation render Vue 2015 modes to compare, HDR, Photo, NPR and Vue Multi-Pass with G-Buffer layering to see fx effects and alpha quality).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyBDfAfbUIQ  The scene is 8M+ Polys and oodles of textures run on a 16gb amdfx.  900 frames, rendered in Ultra on a 10 rendercow farm takes less than 10 hours.  Before AVX this would have taken well over 20+ hours,

Oh... and pardon the crappy pig animation.  It was tossed in to test the Poser import.