Workstation Requirements for Rendering Nighttime Streetview

[silvia_cariani]

Good morning,
I would like to inquire about the ideal workstation specifications needed to quickly process a nighttime render that includes at least 10 light sources, various houses, people, urban furniture, trees, etc., with "displacement" and "Fur" effects on several surfaces. We are talking about a highly detailed model. I wonder, is it better to render using a very powerful graphics card? I am currently using an i9-144900K 3.2 GHz with a Geforce RTX 3060 graphics card, but the rendering times are very long and SketchUp is slow in modeling. Thank you.

[sirio76]

Most likely even with your current hardware you will be able to render via CPU in a few hours if your scene is well conceived.

[iva_mancheva]

Hello silvia_cariani,

You can check out this blog below for ideas on how to optimize your scene for rendering.
If you need fast rendering you can also take advantage of V-Ray Swarm or Chaos Cloud.

Let me know if this helps!

Kind regards,
Iva