First time user queries

[jason_cafferty]

Hi, have used Vray since release of v5 for Sketchup but have always used GPU rendering on my workstation. Currently I have a 4090FE but I have about 16 360 renders to do for a VR tour. Currently I am running 6000x3000 spherical, Medium with denoiser and each is taking up to 4hrs to complete. As I have a ton of other work to get on with I am considering pushing these renders out to the cloud option.
Questions I have are:
Do I get a free trail to test how long each render of this type is likely to take this how many credits I can expect to require?
How does it compare to a 4090 speedwise?
Does it accept GPU render setting (I use RTX) or do I need set it locally to CPU & Bucket still?
Any other tips I should know.

Thanks in advance

[vladie]

Hi jason_cafferty,

1. Yes, Chaos Cloud Rendering offers 20 free credits which each user can get to test the service. You can get the free credits from here.
2. Unfortunately I don't have an answer to your second question. Even if we have a comparison between 4090 and the Chaos Cloud Rendering hardware, the rendering speed depends a lot on the scene, its size, GI used, camera position, etc. So the best way to do a comparison is to run a test render with an example scene or sample which is similar to the scene you need to render. If you are able to use production settings, that will be even better.
3. Yes, we accept V-Ray GPU scene and you can submit them in RTX mode. We use T4 GPU cards. But you can also submit the V-Ray GPU scenes only on CPU in CUDA mode if the GPU memory is not enough. You can do a test with GPU in RTX, and if it runs out of memory we'll fail the frame and will automatically refund you the used credits (we always automatically refund credits for failed frames). Then you can submit the frame again using the CUDA CPU Override option.
4. My additional advise for you is to try first to render an example similar to what you need to render using GPU and RTX. If it is not fine for whatever reason, try CUDA CPU Override. Then try one more test but with the regular V-Ray engine which renders on CPU (in Bucket mode, if you prefer - we support both Bucket and Progressive). If you run out of free test credits, please let me know and we'll consider with the team extending your trial.

Hope this helps!
Bests,
Vladie