hey I went to that site.. and tested the octane scene, mine took like 5 minutes to clear up on gtx 480, his took 33 minutes on gtx 470? Someone is doing something wrong there..Chris_TC wrote:Come on now, have you actually watched the video?havensole wrote:we are dealing with an unbiased engine versus a biased engine in lux (correct me if I am wrong on that).
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I also don't have to spend time doing photon mapping or adjusting a ton of parameters to get something usable.
They tested the modo renderer using Monte Carlo. Of course you need to compare unbiased vs. unbiased, anything else would just be silly.
Since people have been getting incredibly defensive about their purchase, I assume you will be called dishonest or a shill for Luxology as well.richardyot wrote:I own licenses for Modo, Octane and Maxwell, and I did a test on the Luxology forums a few weeks ago (before I know anything about Luxology conducting their own tests), you can see the results here:
http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/t ... x?id=48218
I approached the testing with a completely open mind, I was pretty excited about GPU rendering in fact, but I came to the exact same conclusion that Luxology did
But anyway, even if the luxology people are "biased" the fact is GPU is cheaper than CPU.. and the motherboards that support more than 1 cpu are even more expensive - I always wanted a 4 slot motherboard with 4x 3.2 ghz core i7 processors..
lets see how much is that around 999$ for 1 cpu and the motherboard doesnt even exist for multi socket core i7, only xeons which is even more..
)... Luckily I discovered Octane and can keep my lousy Core2... 
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