if you're a blender user or any other NUMBER_TOKENd app for that matter you probably know the pain of waiting hours or maybe even days for a single render to complete ray tracing engines especially unbiased past traces like cycles can make beautiful images with unmatched realism but those benefits do come at the cost of speed and as we all know slow workflows mean that you get to make fewer creative choices i once made a video about how to increase your render spade in cycles and i said that the best method was to make sure you're using some appropriate hardware but have you ever wondered how fast a really powerful pc can render with cycles well this video is sponsored by nvidia and scans range of rtx studio devices these studio programs is certification initiative for devices aimed at creative workflows if you see the studio badge it means that this device has been through all of nvidia's tests and it meets their criteria for what they consider a really good option for creative work scan has a great range of studio certified devices not just pcs but laptops too you can see scans whole range of studio devices at the link of the description so i recently upgraded my workstation to not one but two rtx NUMBER_TOKENs and since i did that i've been getting a lot of questions about how this performs especially in cycles so i thought it'd be fun today if we just took a look at the performance of this workstation and also run through a suite of benchmarks to see exactly how it stacks up compared to other options so first of all let's talk about the system itself this is my workstation at the moment it's a ryzen NUMBER_TOKENx with NUMBER_TOKEN gigabytes of ram it's on an asrock taichi xNUMBER_TOKEN motherboard it has three terabytes of ssd storage and of course the star of the show is the two rtx NUMBER_TOKEN graphics cards and before anyone starts knocking my pc building skills yes i am aware that it's not ideal to have one card blown straight into the other one but this is a kind of crappy case i'm gonna have to make a little modification to the case before i can drop it down a slot as all it's not actually a big problem though these founder edition cards have really good coolers on them so good in fact that the top card only runs about NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN degrees hotter at idle than the bottom card even though the bottom card is blowing hot air straight into the top so that's pretty crazy so for the benchmarks i'm going to be using blender NUMBER_TOKEN which is the newest version of blender due to be released in about five or six weeks time it comes with a new version of cycles called cycles x which is new and improved in just about everywhere if you want to play with the new build of blender you can get it from URL_TOKEN but be warned if you have an amd or an intel device it won't work with the new version of blender blender does not support opencl anymore which means right now intel and amd devices cannot render with blender for all of these renders i've kept everything at default settings that came with the benchmark files the only thing i've changed is to enable adaptive sampling because there's really no reason not to have that on by the way if you're
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