

Therefore, the best way to evaluate which farm is the right one for you is experience both iRender and Xesktop, test some frames/scenes and decide by yourself. The rendering time will vary in projects with different assests, settings, etc. Iray Outer Space is a suite of HDRIs, Planets, Lights and 2D effects that allow you to create an array of stunning space-scapes. Note: The test result is only for the reference because it is a quite simple test scene. Artists choose which render farm according to their needs, for who only care about the speed, iRender is perfect while Xesktop is more preferred for who want to optimize the cost. As long as it’s free for a hobby-level person like me, its outstanding and easily my new favorite Daz addition. However, the price of Xesktop is more reasonable: $6/hour for 10x GTX 1080Ti, $8/hour for 8x Tesla V100, compared to the lowest $3.8/hour to the highest $28/hour of iRender servers. Iray: 1 min 12 seconds at 900×900 The speed in which in Octane everything can be rendered makes animations in Daz much more do-able That said, I’ll be using Octane for the foreseeable future. Overall, iRender ranks 1 in terms of rendering speed. The mixing modes include PBR Metallicity/Roughness, PBR Specular/Glossiness, and Weighted. The Iray Uber Shader uses three mixing modes to determine what the properties will ultimately look like. 3 remaining servers of iRender (1x RTX 3090, 2x RTX 3090 and 4x RTX 3090), on the other hand, are slower than both Xesktop servers. DAZ Studio 4.8 includes the Iray Uber Shader, a single shader that combines three separate shaders.

They both are faster than Xesktop’s fastest server – 8x Tesla V100.

Another really big advantage of Iray, is that we can get pretty good render results in a fairly short amount of time, if we have a good nVidia graphics card. As we can see from the results, server 6x RTX 3090 and 8x RTX 3090 of iRender have the shortest time to render. The great thing about Iray, is that we can create realistic looking renders without having to muck around too much with lighting.
