£2.00/render hour
One render hour is the equivalent of 1 hour of rendering on a NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti graphics card.
Cost CalculatorA render hour is the equivalent of 1 hour of rendering on a RTX 3080 Ti. 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:
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
RTX 3080 Ti
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
This example shows 4 identical frames rendered at the same time by 4 GPUs of equal performance.
In the first scenario, 4 RTX 3080 Ti GPUs 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.
RTX 3080 Ti 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.
High performance GPUs (x2 performance multiplier)