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> The trend in renderers is extremely clear, nearly everybody is building a GPU version, and the makers and their users all report pretty big speedups with GPUs

> The trend in renderers is extremely clear, nearly everybody is building a GPU version, and the makers and their users all report pretty big speedups with GPUs... The 'trend' of the US government under president Trump is also extremely clear. Sorry, I couldn't resist. :) TLDR; This 'trend' is not economically viable except for two parties. Makers of GPUs and companies renting out GPU rigs in the cloud. Aka: it's just a trend. It's not that anyone sat down and really looked a the numbers. Because if they did this trend wouldn't exist. It's also history repeating itself for those that do not learn from it. It will not go anywhere. Mark my words. I've been there, in 2005/2006, when NVIDIA tried to convince everyone that we should buy their Gelato GPU renderer. I can elaborate why that went nowhere and why it will go nowhere again. But it's a tad off topic.

dahart 6y ago
Feel free to elaborate, I have no idea what your point is here or what you mean with your non-sequitur about the government or how that relates to developers of 3d renderers in any way. I don't know what you mean by "it's just a trend." The fact is that there's evidence for my argument, and you're attempting to dismiss it without any evidence. Comparing Gelato to RTX seems bizarre, they're not related, other than that they're both Nvidia products. Are you trying to say you distrust Nvidia? RTX already is a commercial success, and there are already dozens of games & rendering softwares using RTX on the market and hundreds more building on it. RTX already went somewhere.
- virtualritz 6y ago
  I am not talking about games. I am talking about offline rendering only. My point was that indeed bizarre things can become trends and it doesn't make them less bizarre.
- virtualritz 6y ago
  > Comparing Gelato to RTX seems bizarre, they're not related, [...] I did not compare RTX with Gelato. Where do you find the word 'RTX' in any of my replies? I compared Gelato as a GPU-based offline renderer with other contemporary GPU offline renderers.

dahart 6y ago

Feel free to elaborate, I have no idea what your point is here or what you mean with your non-sequitur about the government or how that relates to developers of 3d renderers in any way. I don't know what you mean by "it's just a trend." The fact is that there's evidence for my argument, and you're attempting to dismiss it without any evidence. Comparing Gelato to RTX seems bizarre, they're not related, other than that they're both Nvidia products. Are you trying to say you distrust Nvidia? RTX already is a commercial success, and there are already dozens of games & rendering softwares using RTX on the market and hundreds more building on it. RTX already went somewhere.

virtualritz 6y ago
I am not talking about games. I am talking about offline rendering only. My point was that indeed bizarre things can become trends and it doesn't make them less bizarre.
virtualritz 6y ago
> Comparing Gelato to RTX seems bizarre, they're not related, [...] I did not compare RTX with Gelato. Where do you find the word 'RTX' in any of my replies? I compared Gelato as a GPU-based offline renderer with other contemporary GPU offline renderers.