Yeah, the logic behind buckets I understand - what's pulling my hair here is why oh why my CPU prefers larger buckets and renders faster without Branched Path Tracing which, from my understanding, is actually limiting samples to make sure render time isn't going to waste. So it feels like my CPU is faster doing several larger buckets and wasting more samples!

Poor thing seems to like being special

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Poser Pro 11, Poser 12 and Poser 13, Windows 10, Superfly junkie. My units are milimeters.

Persephone (the computer): AMD Ryzen 9 5900x, RTX 3070 GPU, 96gb ram.