Leonardo Render is 3x–6x Faster Than Competitors
Ahead of its launch, which was scheduled for the end of Summer 2018, Leonardo Render conducted benchmark and beta-testing of its platform. Leonardo pushed themselves to assure they had a great product ready to be tested ahead of the scheduled roadmap.
The results were very encouraging. The beta-test showed that using only 14 GPUs, Leonardo Render is already 3 to 6 times faster than many of its competitors. The render farms selected for inclusion in the test included those that support Blender — the widely used, freely available rendering software.
Leonardo Render was tested against eleven farms: Amazon Web Services (Renderbot), Fox Render Farm, Turborender, RebusFarm, Paperspace, RenderRocket, Render4you, vsocloud, Render Street, BlenderGrid and Anima Render.
Surprisingly, or perhaps unsurprisingly to those who are familiar with cloud rendering platforms, we found that we were only able to complete our rendering task with three of the eleven farms included in the test.
The remaining eight farms failed for a variety of reasons. Two of them we couldn’t even sign up to — on one of them the registration simply ‘failed’ despite numerous attempts from a number of different email accounts, and on the other the sign-up process was so complicated it needed a 30 page tutorial. Two other services turned out not to support Blender projects at all, despite it being stated on their official websites. Another platform had no direct integration with Blender software, and one ran on a plugin that wouldn’t launch on a Windows 7 PC. The remaining farms simply stopped rendering due to ‘unexpected errors’.
Two of the three farms that did complete our rendering task had an incorrect result due to missing texture files.
So, after all this, only one render farm actually managed to provide a friendly user experience, direct integration with Blender and rendered the scene correctly. Anima Render was able to complete the task at a higher price point and a longer wait time.
To compare price and task runtime, we used the Blender standard Koro and BMW benchmark render scenes.
Rendering time varied from 15–20 minutes for the Koro model and cost over $1 for the three services it took to finish the rendering task.
As for the BMW model, it took around 3 minutes to finish the task at a cost of $0.20.
Encouragingly for such a new platform, Leonardo Render managed to complete these same tasks much faster and cheaper. Specifically, it took seven minutes to render the Koro model at a cost of just $0.22. For the BMW model, it took a little over two minutes at a cost of just $0.06!
In other words, Leonardo managed to successfully render the same projects in half the time or less than all of the other render farms!
Leonardo is currently the fastest, simplest, most affordable cloud supercompute solution for the graphical rendering industry. What’s more, unlike most ICO projects, Leonardo already has a working product that’s available to test right now!
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