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Which render farm to speed up the renders?

yuyu.atemyuyu.atem Posts: 469
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Hi! I have some scenes that take several hours to compute the render for a mere 902*891px format, so I am thinking about using a render farm. However, I already have a GPU, so I wonder if a render farm would actually speed up the renders compared to my computer... Could you give me some advices, please? Which render farm would you recommand? How can I be sure that the render will be actually faster?

Thank you in advance for your advices!

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  • kprkpr Posts: 297

    Daz has an offer with one, so you get a discount. However, I didn't find it easy to use. You are leasing just a single GPU 4x Nvidia machine, (I do not think the 5x machines will work with Daz 2024?) unless you are prepared to pay a lot (per hour) to lease one with multiple GPU. All that put, the Daz offer is with: https://boostfordaz.infinite-compute.com/

    You might also like to view this thread on these forums: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/561436/boost-for-daz - If Jack is still offering his service that does work and is reasonably priced (link in that forum post)

    Instead, could you make use of this (reducing unnecessary large textures will speed your render time significantly): https://www.daz3d.com/scene-optimizer

  • yuyu.atemyuyu.atem Posts: 469

    Great, thank you very much, i will look at it! laughFor the boost for Daz, do you know if it could be actually worth to use it with only a single GPU machine while I am already using a NVIDIA GPU on my computer?

    Thank you in advance!

  • ElorElor Posts: 3,157

    What GPU do you have in your computer?

  • yuyu.atemyuyu.atem Posts: 469

    Hi! I am realizing that I didn't answer! Sorry, I was very buisy recently... Here is the information of my GPU (hoping it's enough, I'm not sure where to find all the information) :

  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 1,999

    Without knowing what you have in your scene, it's hard to say exactly how fast it'll be, but if you have a 2060, you would be amazed at how much faster a 4090 is.

  • kprkpr Posts: 297
    edited October 23

    You have 6GB VRAM which effects the number (and size/complexity) of objects and their textures that you can render in one scene. The same would be true if you rented a machine from a render farm, so you would want to make sure it had at least as much - and probably at least twice as much.

    Render Speed - Your card is three-generations behind the latest nvidia card, so you would see a speed increase if you rented a series 4xxx at a render farm, and even more if you use Daz2025 and then rent a machine with a series 5xxxx.

    A 4xxxx might get you 2x the speed, a 5xxxx maybe 2.5 or possibly 3x

    However, you rent machines by the hour - that usually includes setting up software and transferring the scene/model files to the server - and so it would be reasonably cheap for you to pay for a handful of hours and do some testing. 

    Personally, I would not spend the extra money unless I was doing something commercial (for sale to other people) but I guess that depends how much you feel happy spending on what might be your hobby?

    NB: Buying a new 4xxx card for your own machine might cost $350+

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  • ElorElor Posts: 3,157

    kpr said:

    The information missing is the VRAM your card has.

    It's the 6GB version of the 2060 (the value is visible on the second column of the second row).

  • kprkpr Posts: 297

    Elor said:

    kpr said:

    The information missing is the VRAM your card has.

    It's the 6GB version of the 2060 (the value is visible on the second column of the second row).

    Thank you - I has corrected smileyyes 

  • yuyu.atemyuyu.atem Posts: 469

    Ah, ok, i think I understand better, now! Thank you very much! laugh

  • ecks201ecks201 Posts: 478

    benniewoodell said:

    Without knowing what you have in your scene, it's hard to say exactly how fast it'll be, but if you have a 2060, you would be amazed at how much faster a 4090 is.

    Is there a standard scene that we could all render on different cards to give an indication of how long a particular card takes to render it? 

  • benniewoodellbenniewoodell Posts: 1,999

    There used to be a thread with benchmark scene in the title, and if I recall correctly (please forgive me as it's been years since I've even thought of dealing with render farms and card comparisons) that had the file that was the same across the board to test your card's speed. I just don't know if the thread was in the commons or another sub category here in the forums. 

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,748

    Here's the benchmark thread: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/341041/daz-studio-iray-rendering-hardware-benchmarking 

  • felisfelis Posts: 5,748

    There is this https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/341041/daz-studio-iray-rendering-hardware-benchmarking/p1

    There are some newer post, but I don't know the overview if still is maintained (it is long time ago it was last updated).

  • TotteTotte Posts: 14,689

    yuyu.atem said:

    Great, thank you very much, i will look at it! laughFor the boost for Daz, do you know if it could be actually worth to use it with only a single GPU machine while I am already using a NVIDIA GPU on my computer?

    Thank you in advance!

    On BoostForDaz you can pick GPUs, like sometimes I use 3 x A6000 ( 48GB VRAM cards), grat for huge scenes. What is important to know though, is that if you have a slow internet connection, specially the upstream, you spend much more time upoloading than rendering, so upload to a CPU only upload node, then start your render node and render, just remember they need to be in the same cloud region.

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