Render Engine Comparisons 2021

	A	B	C	D	E	F	H	I	J	L	M	N	O	P
1	GLOBAL ILLUMINATION (1600x1600)									Multiple of fastest score
2	GPU						Engine Versions			GPU
3	Engine	Brute Force	Secondary	Difference	x Multiple of Fastest	Noise Score	Cycles	2.92 (2.93 for SSS, 3.0.0 X-Cycles build for X-Cycles)			GI	SSS	Volumetrics	All Rounder
4	Octane	7.57			1.00	32.29	Corona	Corona 6 Hotfix 1		Vray	1.64	1.83	4.20	1.00
5	E-Cycles	9.27			1.22	32.02	Vray	Vray 5 Hotfix 2		E-Cycles	1.22	1.00	4.68	2.00
6	Redshift	16.85	9.85	41.54%	1.30	31.93	Octane	2020.2.1		Redshift	1.30	1.33	1.00	2.17
7	Vray	34.15	12.42	63.63%	1.64	32.04	Arnold	4.3.2.46		Octane	1.00	1.39	12.88	3.12
8	Cycles (OptiX)	16.09			2.13	31.96	Redshift	3.0.41		Cycles	2.13	1.83	9.08	2.56
9	Cycles (Cuda)	20.26			2.68	31.96	LuxCore	2.5		Cycles X	2.77	1.33		1.56
10	Cycles X	21			2.77	31.99	Cycles X	3.0.0 X-Cycles preview build		LuxCore	5.27	2.17	10.00	8.59
11	LuxCore	39.88			5.27	32.08	E-Cycles	v20210224		CPU
12										Vray	1.00	2.33	2.33	1.00
13	CPU						Hardware Information			Corona	1.19	1.00	1.00	3.52
14	Engine	Brute Force	Secondary	Difference	x Multiple of Fastest	Ref. Score	GPU	Gigabyte Vision 3090 (Default clocks/voltages)		Cycles	8.30	10.39	10.39	12.83
15	Vray	374	37	90.11%	1.00	31.98	CPU	Intel 7820x (Default clocks/voltages)		Cycles X	8.35	5.32		10.68
16	Corona	250	44	82.40%	1.19	31.88	Memory	64GB Quad Channel 3000mhz (Via XMP)		Arnold	20.95	4.08	4.08	8.89
17	Cycles	307			8.30	31.96
18	Cycles X	309			8.35	31.99	Overall Multiple of Fastest
19	Arnold	922			20.95	32.01	GPU
20							Engine	Median
21	SUBSURFACE SCATTERING (1600x1600)						Redshift	1.32
22	GPU						E-Cycles	1.61
23	Engine	Brute Force	Secondary	Difference	x Multiple of Fastest	Ref. Score	Vray	1.74
24	E-Cycles	18			1.00	42.04	Octane	2.25
25	Redshift	29	24	17.24%	1.33	41.85	Cycles	2.34
26	Cycles X	24			1.33	41.85	CyclesX	1.56
27	Octane	25			1.39	42	LuxCore	6.93
28	Vray	33	33	0.00%	1.83	42.25
29	Cycles (CUDA)	33			1.83	42.05
30	LuxCore	39			2.17	41.9	CPU
31	Cycles (Optix)	61			3.39	42.05	Engine	Median
32							Vray	1.00
33	CPU						Corona	2.35
34	Engine	Brute Force	Secondary	Difference	x Multiple of Fastest	Ref. Score	Arnold	6.22
35	Vray	59	68	-15.25%	1.00	42.11	Cycles	9.35
36	Arnold	220			3.73	42.17	CyclesX	8.35
37	Corona	265	269	-1.51%	4.49	42.25
38	Cycles X	314			5.32	42.08	Noise Targets		Variance
39	Cycles	320			5.42	42.05	GI	32	0.01
40							SSS	42	0.02
41	VOLUME (School Scene) (1600x1600)						Volume	32	1.38
42	GPU						Archviz	32	0.41
43	Engine	Brute Force	Secondary	Difference	x Multiple of Fastest	Ref. Score
44	Redshift	95	25	73.68%	1.00	35.8	Test Defaults Used
45	Vray	432	105	75.69%	4.20	31.91	GI	3 bounces, no caustics, no clamping
46	E-Cycles	117			4.68	32.01	SSS	4 bounces, no caustics, no clamping
47	Cycles (Optix)	227			9.08	31.97	VOLUME	4 bounces, no caustics, no clamping, homongenous
48	LuxCore	250			10.00	32.04	ARCHVIZ	16 bounces, caustics/no caustics, no clamping
49	Octane	322			12.88	32.03	ALL	Bucket render where possible, no adaptive sampling, no pre-built caches
50	Cycles (Cuda)	459			18.36	31.97
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53	Engine	Brute Force	Secondary	Difference	x Multiple of Fastest	Ref. Score
54	Corona	1837	262	85.74%	1.00	32.19
55	Vray	7207	611	91.52%	2.33	31.91
56	Arnold	1069			4.08	33.3
57	Cycles	2723			10.39	31.97
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62	Engine	Brute Force	Secondary	Difference	x Multiple of Fastest	Ref. Score
63	Vray	115	59	48.70%	1.00	31.98
64	Cycles X	92			1.56	31.97
65	E-Cycles	118			2.00	31.91
66	Redshift	336	128	61.90%	2.17	32.06
67	Cycles (Optix)	151			2.56	31.97
68	Cycles (CUDA)	184			3.12	31.97
69	Octane	186			3.12	31.99
70	LuxCore	507			8.59	31.89
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73	Engine	Brute Force	Secondary	Difference	x Multiple of Fastest	Ref. Score
74	Vray	444	160	63.96%	1.00	31.97
75	Corona	1048	563	46.28%	3.52	32.24
76	Arnold	1422			8.89	34.2
77	Cycles X	1709			10.68	31.97
78	Cycles	2053			12.83	31.97
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