Totally agree with you on that ! SSS will slow down any scene no matter the software we use .. my CPU and twin Titans are water cooled so it is steady at 32-38 C max even when rendering animation for hours .. the best step I could do in this direction , before I could blow dry my hair lol , lower temperatures faster GPU and you never hear the fans again as you know, how more power go to the fan how less performance for the GPU . I do tonnes of work for living so I need faster rendering .. having good card is great and also doing good stuff with even better .. I rendered for a long time with my GTX 760 and I still did the job just much slower .. better card will not do better art .. just faster ..but if it was just a hobby I would stick to my laptop ..

jura11 posted at 12:53PM Tue, 01 March 2016 - #4258505

Hi

What is slowing down in Cycles is SSS if you have,which is very slow on Titan X,if I'm comparing this to older GTX780,but I've done few tests with my other GPU MSI R9 390X which I've used in Cycles and this card is lot faster than Titan X which is OC to +255MHz on core and 300MHz at memory,Power and temperature target raised to 110% and temp target set at 91C (temps has been in low high 70's) with 40% fan profile

Agree Cycles or Superfly won't divide GPU equally you will see in GPU-Z or MSI Afterburner(EVGA Precision which is copy of MSI AB),Octane agree is fast,IRAY depends on scene,but personally if I need to use other renderer then Corona wins down for me in 3DS MAX,used several other renderers and this is for me best,fast rendering,no nonsense regarding you need that GPU or other GPU,simple CPU rendering

Cycles never been fast renderer,but again this really depends on scene as in most renderers

Hope this helps and good luck

Thanks,Jura

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