I thought I was going crazy but after much testing and tons of confirmation online I have sadly accepted that V-Ray 5 is undeniably slower than V-Ray Next was with equivalent settings.
I don’t understand why this has to be, for example V-Ray Next GPU settings were almost identical to current settings save for the big differences like GPU LC and trimming a few older settings etc.
The reasoning in all the threads I’ve read is that a higher priority has been placed on consistent quality at the cost of some speed, I imagine this means overall samples are higher than what similar settings in V-Ray Next and prior display compared to equivalent V-Ray 5 settings.
V-Ray as far back as I can remember has always improved performance in all aspects especially render speed until version 5 and I have not read a truly compelling reason as to the loss in performance over difficult to perceive fidelity comparatively speaking, certainly ease of use is not a very good reason to slow a render engine down… as we’ve had the option between Simple, Advanced and Expert settings for a long while now.
Please understand this is more confused sadness than complaint, I think V-Ray 5 is wonderful, the additions, improvements and ease of use have all moved forward, but why can’t the old loyal Chaos Group standards of always improving speed as well as quality be rekindled.
The less render power you have the more vital and welcome speed increases become, for studios with render farms speed decreases can be negligible but for Individual artists with one or two GPUs or less than 100s of cores it’s kinda brutal.
I’d much rather update to a newer build than have to revert to an older build to regain a speed advantage.
I just hope that render speed which has been one of V-Ray’s legacy hallmarks does not continue to be sacrificed as time moves forward.
V-Ray = Speed + Quality
I don’t understand why this has to be, for example V-Ray Next GPU settings were almost identical to current settings save for the big differences like GPU LC and trimming a few older settings etc.
The reasoning in all the threads I’ve read is that a higher priority has been placed on consistent quality at the cost of some speed, I imagine this means overall samples are higher than what similar settings in V-Ray Next and prior display compared to equivalent V-Ray 5 settings.
V-Ray as far back as I can remember has always improved performance in all aspects especially render speed until version 5 and I have not read a truly compelling reason as to the loss in performance over difficult to perceive fidelity comparatively speaking, certainly ease of use is not a very good reason to slow a render engine down… as we’ve had the option between Simple, Advanced and Expert settings for a long while now.
Please understand this is more confused sadness than complaint, I think V-Ray 5 is wonderful, the additions, improvements and ease of use have all moved forward, but why can’t the old loyal Chaos Group standards of always improving speed as well as quality be rekindled.
The less render power you have the more vital and welcome speed increases become, for studios with render farms speed decreases can be negligible but for Individual artists with one or two GPUs or less than 100s of cores it’s kinda brutal.
I’d much rather update to a newer build than have to revert to an older build to regain a speed advantage.
I just hope that render speed which has been one of V-Ray’s legacy hallmarks does not continue to be sacrificed as time moves forward.
V-Ray = Speed + Quality
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