Hey guys, I am the author of the cloud render video tutorials. Let me answer some questions for the google cloud gpu render things.
how does that only score 542?!
Tesla k80 is a dual gpu, so 8gpus means actually there are 4 physical cards attached. Also k80 is Kepler based architecture, so for around 550 octanebench points, it's not supprise at all..
Because Tesla K80s only get around 70 each in bench.
Yes, only 70 points
and that really sucks...althrough comparing to the old K520(40 octane points) in 2016, it still got greatly improved
However the good news is, google is plan for new gpu hardware, it's a P100 which has much powerful render performance than a single gtx1080ti... so imagine if the P100 charges you around 0.7$ per gpu per hour. The render performance is a monster
Seems like a waste using that service for Octane then. I would have thought K80's have much more punch for what they cost.
Well not exactly... The k80's althrough charge 0.7$ per hour, but google allow new users to get about 300$ free credit to use any google products, including K80 of cause.. so in this case converting to "octane power", is about 8 tesla K80 running 50 hours rendering for free
Also please don't forget 8 tesla K80 is about 3 gtx1080's performance.. so I would definitely enjoy that free render power for using octane render or and gpu render engine
That's why this video tutorial come from
Support OS: remote Windows 2012, 2016 only
You can use Linux and Windows OS in google cloud, but in this video tutorial I only use windows as an example and demo how to deploy them as a gpu render node.
Thank you guys for your interesting ^^
Shane
