GradedBlue Renderfarm
Pricing
Each frame is charged individually in render hours.
£1.50/render hour
What is a render hour?
A render hour is the equivalent of 1 hour of rendering on a GTX 1080. Because the renderfarm runs on a wide variety of hardware, we standardize the price across all our nodes to make costs predictable. We use a benchmark to compare the performance of each node and generate a performance multiplier which is used to calculate the render hours used.
This formula is used to calculate the cost of a frame in render hours.
Render hours = (render time in seconds / 3600) * performance multiplier
Examples
Example 1
The following is an example where the same frame is rendered on different types of hardware.
CPUs and older GPUs
Render time: 60 minutes
Performance multiplier: x0.5
Cost: 0.5 render hours
GTX 1080
Render time: 30 minutes
Performance multiplier: x1
Cost: 0.5 render hours
Newer GPUs
Render time: 15 minutes
Performance multiplier: x2
Cost: 0.5 render hours
Example 2
This example shows 4 identical frames rendered at the same time by 4 GPUs of equal performance.
In the first scenario, 4 GTX 1080s render the project in parallel, with each frame taking 15 minutes to complete. Each frame costs 0.25 render hours, and the render finishes in 15 minutes, costing a total of 1 render hour.
Frame 1
Frame 2
Frame 3
Frame 4
GTX 1080 GPUs (x1 performance multiplier)
In the second scenario, 4 high performance GPUs with a x2 performance multiplier render the same project, with each frame taking 7.5 minutes to complete. Each frame costs 0.25 render hours, and the render finishes in 7.5 minutes, costing a total of 1 render hour.
Frame 1
Frame 2
Frame 3
Frame 4
High performance GPUs (x2 performance multiplier)