V-Ray | CPU or GPU - Which one can render FASTER?

In this video we will compare the renderspeed between a CPU and GPU based system in V-Ray for 3ds Max. V-Ray ships with 2 completely separate engines which makes comparisions quite easy and straight forward. Being able to recycle all ressources and almost complete feature support makes switching between CPU and GPU often times as simple as just pushing a button.

So in this video we will render the same scene using either CPU or GPU. To level the playing field we will have 2 very worthy contestants:

CPU: AMD Threadripper 3990x (64 Cores @ 2.9 GHz)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (16.384 CUDA Cores)

We will develop techniques on making sure that both engines are presented with the same task. At completion we will compare the results and check out who was able to perform better in our example.
Chapters:

00:00 - Overview
00:48 - Scene Setup
02:10 - CPU Setup
05:14 - Results
09:03 - Final Thoughts

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