Weezer wrote:Sometimes it feels like OctaneX is dead in the water. I wonder how many people are actually using it, after all the fanfare? I mean, it’s mainly a small subset of people who bought Mac Pros or use an eGPU setup. Feels like a fairly small gang to be a part of...
It's been great for me during the pandemic.
I use it on my home Macs (Houdini, Maya), and then export to .orbx to render on my studio CUDA network. My iMac with 2x5700XT is certainly fast enough as a workstation. And the 16GB VRAM of the internal 5700XT is nice for Houdini OpenCL.
The performance per watt of the M1 looks insane. Looking forward to seeing what a 100 Watt version can do vs. the current ~10 Watts.