For the final test I created a short animation in Solaris, exported to USD, and uploaded the whole project folder structure to Azure. This lets you easily transfer files to and from Azure blob storage. Set up the azcopy utility on my local Windows machine and the Linux VM. I put Maya, 3Delight, Arnold and Houdini Engine. Install a desktop environment (although technically you don't really need it): I tried Gnome, Xfce and KDE and KDE was by far the best.
CentOS has no hourly fee so you'll just pay for the vCPU time, not the OS. Here's the workflow I settled on after several weeks of on and off testing: - Install CentOS 8.2 on an Azure VM. Azure is dirt cheap and not too hard to use. I ended up rolling my own solution on Azure. I won't go into exhaustive detail, but suffice it to say that AWS's Thinkbox and Nimble Studio, while very cool and useful, are way overkill for just one guy. I was about ready to buy some PCs to create a mini-farm at home, but I had the thought to revisit AWS and Azure. I tried many of the common commercial options and all shared two problems: they get real expensive real fast and a lot of the process is out of your control. Upgrade Capacity: If you choose dual RTX 3070s (or even 3080s) then you can’t really upgrade further without taking them out and putting in new cards, while a system with a single RTX 3090 blower card could have one or two more added in the future (assuming you planned ahead with the motherboard, chassis size, cooling, and power supply).Hi all, I've got a ~10 minute animated film project coming up and I've been researching how to render it all in a reasonable amount of time.Some rendering engines can use system memory for portions of that data, but doing so will usually have a negative impact on performance. VRAM: Since the RTX 3070 has only 8GB of onboard memory, compared to the RTX 3090’s 24GB, it will be much more limited in terms of scene complexity and texture resolution.There are a couple of things to keep in mind with such comparisons, though:
Since those two 3070s would cost $500 less that seems like an appealing option, and for some folks, it may indeed be viable. In every one of these benchmarks, a pair of GeForce RTX 3070 cards is able to outperform a single RTX 3090. Looking beyond raw performance, let’s talk about value. Redshift isn’t quite as good, but still very respectable with about a 95% increase in performance per additional card. Both OctaneRender and V-Ray Next ( not the older Vray) have effectively perfect scaling: two cards provide twice the performance of one card, with very slight variations that are within the margin of error. As we have seen in the past, GPU rendering scales extremely well across multiple video cards.
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