Is it cheaper to render GPU jobs to the cloud, but choose CPU only?

Cloud Cloud Rendering General
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I saw an option to use CPU only on the cloud (IIRC) - and wondered what it’s purpose was.

I thought it might be for slow jobs and to save money?

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GPU doesn’t support everything the CPU does.

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I’m not talking about CPU versus GPU renderer - I’m talking about using the GPU renderer and choosing to only render to CPU. Vray GPU supports CPU rendering with CUDA.

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Hello!

CPU only on Cloud will be helpful if your scene runs out of GPU memory, the GPUs on the Cloud are 16 GB
If your scene is smaller than that, it is cheaper and faster to render with the GPUs

Best,
Muhammed

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Ahh - good to know.

I would say then, that Cosmos needs to be more upfront about the cards only having 16gb - RTX 3090s and 4090s have been around for a couple of years with 24gb, so it’s obvious that many users will be using that much memory without really thinking about Cosmos.

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Thank you for the feedback!
We will document the 16 GB GPU memory limitation

Best,
Muhammed