ok thanks for all your input although my original question still stands!
What situation would you ever just render with CPU? Or just GPU?
Surely you want the render done as fast as possible which will ALWAYS be CPU & GPU together…
It depends first on your hardware. With a weak GPU you’re better just using the CPU.
Do a simple test like the one I’ll post below to decide for yourself.
Another method to do the testing; render for a defined amount of time. Here I asked to render for one minute (click on the image, there’s 5 cars):
Some observations:
-Not all materials clean up faster with GPU
-The Denoiser has some better data to work with from the GPU renderer, the result is less splotchy
-The weakest setting of the denoiser is still strong, I’ll test with custom settings with lower values
-For one minute, these are all pretty incredible results!
In 3.4 there was a difference in how reflections and some materials were represented when using CPU only or with GPU acceleration - depending on the render settings.
3.6 is much better, there still appears some cases where the GPU engine doesn’t quite work as well as the CPU:
i7 4790K, GTX 980 Ti
here is my model https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RZ9bjagv_5UtXTK1w7qcdCFumDiiKfbm
(without trees from CGAxis, and furniture from Herman Miller which You can download here https://www.hermanmiller.com/design-resources/3d-models-revit/3d-models-by-product/tables.html)
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Thanks Robert, very kind…
what file type do you generally use to download furniture?
There is a very good post by Chaos Group explaining the difference between the different types of rendering engine of V-Ray: https://www.chaosgroup.com/blog/understanding-v-ray-hybrid-rendering
The article explains the advantages and disadvantages of using Hybrid Render
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