quietrob posted at 7:13AM Mon, 26 August 2019 - #4360347

It looks like a battle between CPU and GPU rendering. By your stats, FF takes half as long to render the scene with the graininess.

That is my experience as well. I have a decent machine. 12 core processor, 64 Gb of RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. And Superfly takes twice as long as Firefly (I timed it), and graininess is still an issue. (I shudder to think about how long it would take with CPU rendering.)

A couple of people suggested that I use an external denoiser, but I'd rather just render with low noise from the get-go.

And I am rarely interested in hyper-realism. I'm more likely to run renders through Photoshop to make them look hand-drawn than I am to try and make them look like photographs.

If they improve Superfly to the point that it works as fast and as well as Firefly, fine. But if they're not going to do that, please don't take Firefly away.