Finding the Best Render Engine for Blender

In this video, We'll find out what the best free render engine for blender is, by testing them in a couple of different categories, so a bit of a render engine comparison if you will!

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[arthursimonneau]

Thx for the video man ! A lot of comments talk about how you render test with a bad setup, but i've been using blender on a laptop with no graphic card for years and this kinda videos are really helpful ! Keep up

[diazostreta]

It is such a shame that Luxcore's development has stalled since the financial support couldn't sustain the project. I am fond of it and its capabilities, and it really hurts to see a good open-source project go to waste like this. I bet my money on cycles more because it will always be 100% compatible with blender along with EVEE (although that's up for debate, I thought blender internal would still be present for its speedy raster capabilities and toon shading goodness but look how that turned out).

[Mranshumansinghr]

Luxcore is by far the best for Interior Archviz scenes. It has a Cache System which is amazing. Its Reflection bounces are far superior to any other render engine. It has the best Caustics (Because of the same reasons). Cycles is also great and very very versatile. Octane is just ok.

[TheDsmash]

Good comparison video. Fair and focused on real use factors. As a subjective rating...I agree that the golden look of the Cycles render is most appealing.

Are you considering including Renderman in your list of free render engines for Blender? It may not qualify for free commercial use but it's a powerhouse with feature film quality potential right inside Blender and I've only seen one video of someone using it in Blender.

Thanks for a fun video!

[minidreschi]

how did u not placed the different renders in one screen? i mean, me as a video watcher, dont want to go back and forth to watch the different renders :\

[Mr.LeoNov]

Nice video!
Would've loved to see how light interacts with glass in different engines

I have 2x GTX 1070 Ti for rendering with Cycles and the max render time I had for the moment is 19 min in 2K for the screensplash of Blender, the one from "Charge" with smoke and co. I think it's about render optimisation for 44 min 38 sec. I worked on full 3d movies and the max in some case was 4 hours in 2K on CPU with Guerilla Render. I use only Cycles to produce photorealistic renders and VFX.

[cg.man_aka_kevin]

Wait, isn't LuxCore much slower than Cycles? Honestly, I just found out about this... 😅😅😅

[tbuk]

I think the conclusions of this video are only more correct after the new Blender 4.0 update. The new BSDF shader is even simpler and better than ever, and the switch from Filmic to AgX has made lighting significantly more realistic.

[innerc]

You probably should upgrade to at least an 8GB GPU for testing rendering, 4GB is just too small for even video games, and cycles benefit from better optimization in more complex scenes that needs more vram.

[flonkplonk]

Luxcore is the absolute best especially for indoor and caustics and photorealism in general... It's unfortunately quite slow...

[Gromick]

3:21 i use Octane for 5 years now, and i can assure you that the "Out of core memory" function is not working. It crashes 90% of the time. And if it doesn´t your renders take about 6 time as long as normal. That caused very big issues for me in the past when renders took 6 hours instead of one and i didn´t realise it until i came back on the PC the next day and nothing was done. It´s probably a good idea to deactivate that function.

[MoveBlocker]

I think your video would be better without background music since it's distracting

[ultraplexplextor]

Blender v4.1, Flamenco v3.4, four Nvidia Grid K2 GPUs, and two Dell R720 servers.

[tycholeifels]

Cycles just crashes on my old system AMD Threadripper 2950X, 1090Ti, 64GB RAM. On the newer systems it works fine Ryzen 7 5950X, RTX3090, 64GB and Ryzen 9 7950X, RTX4090, 128GB. Tried so many things but nothing works. Where do you get OctaneRenderer for free???

[MsMrFool]

Hello, maybe you can help me. I’ve recently started my journey on Blender and want to use Cycles also but going to the Blender webpage and to experimental i can not see it there. How can i download Cycles to my Mac?

[edenassos]

How are you doing Render comparisons when you have a 4GB VRAM GPU that isn't even RTX?

[saparjumash]

cycles is shit. not realistic at all and not artist friendly but math friendly. it is super fast cos it is a native but it literally washes the renders

[SUVO_RAW]

Just go get a better PC, I never render anything more then 2 minutes per frame in 4K with cycles, I have RTX 3090, 32GB RAM and Ryzen 7 3700X with 4.2GHz OC each core

[whatnickshouldiuse]

Cant you do a video with you talking in whole sentences and without this stupid speed cuttings? I know its trending but the major part of humanity isnt in the ADHD realm, it would add a lot of quality to your videos!!!