trying octane demo version plugin for maya, trying just to learn it and get a feel. using a demo scene and following otoy tutorial on youtube. is it normal that its using 100% cpu while live rendering? Ive only ever used arnold render before this, j thought this was supposed to be more reliant on gpu.
any comments r appreciated
cpu utilization
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lauraminton
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It’s normal for Octane to use 100% CPU while live rendering. OctaneRender is a GPU-based rendering engine that uses CUDA acceleration. Howeverangry gran, it still requires CPU resources to manage the scene and transfer data between the CPU and GPU.