Torquinox posted at 9:26AM Thu, 22 November 2018 - #4335140

I think it will happen but Daz won't directly decide it. The iray people will. From what I can tell, Daz doesn't make its renderers, It licenses ports of existing renderers. 3Delight is a licensed renderman renderer. Iray is a licensed PBR renderer. And Daz doesn't always get the best port. 3Delight is capable of more than what it does in Daz, but Daz is in love with Iray.

I think your issues are more related to hardware than the render engines themselves. The Iray ported to DAZ is pretty much the same as the stand alone version and is even capable of being ported to Iray Server over a network, which frees up DAZ for authoring. I use two HP z820 workstaions with two Titan Xp in each, with one workstation running DAZ/Iray and the other workstation running Iray Server. Speeds are fast enough to use Iray in my viewport. So as is the case with any render engine hardware is key.

From what I have seen so far, Iray rendering speeds are doubled using RTX 2080 over say a pascal based Titan. Not sure yet what the results are with Quadro version of Turing GPU's.