iRender - Advanced Render Farm For Redshift

Maxon Redshift has earned its place in the graphics industry as one of the powerful leading GPU-accelerated render solutions nowadays. It is not only the fastest renderer in the world but it also offers an extensive suite of the most robust features and flexibility of all GPU renderers, supporting 3D professionals and creative studios at different scales as well as integrating with industry-standard CG applications. As a result, Redshift has been increasingly used by numerous professional studios and manufacturers for their projects recently.

Artist: Hirokazu Yokohara (Source image: Redshift)

As we all know, Redshift is a rendering engine that is totally GPU-based. This means that rather than the CPU, your system's graphics card (or GPUs) have an impact on how long rendering takes to complete. Therefore, it can be said that finding a suitable machine configuration for 3D projects with Redshift is not easy, because usually Redshift projects have a very heavy workload, especially during the rendering process. 

You can refer to the recommended system requirements for Redshift by Maxon:

• 16 GB of RAM or more
• Core i7 or Xeon equivalent, 3.0GHz or better
• For Windows and Linux: NVIDIA GPU with CUDA compute capability 7.0 or higher and 8 GB of VRAM or more. We recommend an NVIDIA Quadro, Titan or GeForce RTX GPU for hardware-accelerated ray tracing
• For macOS: Apple M1 16 GB or AMD "Navi" or "Vega" GPU or later with 8 GB VRAM or more.
• Multiple GPUs

With the mentioned system configuration requirements for the Redshift, you may consider investing in your own machine or upgrading your existing computer. Or another attractive option is to use services in form of render farms. Render farms have been present with the 3D graphic design industry for a long time. However, along with the difficulty to keep up with the development of different versions of 3D software, plugins, etc., there is the emergence and development of new-style render farms, one of which is iRender.

With the model of providing services in the form of IaaS, you will find it a bit strange and wonder if you would spend too much time setting up the working environment? In fact, everything becomes a lot simpler as iRender completely stores your working environment, as well as developed many features so that if you want to have more than one environment to speed up render time in your project, you also only need to install all the software once.

In terms of software, Redshift supports a variety of 3D applications such as Maya, 3dsMax, Cinema4D, Houdini, Katana, and Blender. Redshift integrates perfectly with many industry leading 3D design applications making it an ideal choice for architects, product designers and animators to bring their projects to life. One of the main benefits of GPU rendering over CPU rendering is the potential for incredible render times. To achieve the best render times possible, it requires the right computing hardware. So how do you optimize a workstation to get the most from Redshift?  The video card selection is the driving factor for performance in Redshift, basically, you can use multiple GPUs to further speed up.

At iRender, they provide you with a solution that will completely address your problem. In other words, you can choose the most suitable server package for your renderer from their selection of server packages, which range from single GPU to multi GPU RTX 3090 which is presently one of the most powerful GPU types available. RTX A-series cards have up to twice the VRAM which allows for much higher resolution and detailed scenes to be rendered without running out of video memory. 

Despite focusing on configurations with multiple GPUs to maximize rendering speed thanks to Redshift's GPU acceleration advantage, iRender's configuration still offers one of the most robust professors on the market today: AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX. A faster CPU will make it easier to extract mesh data, load textures, and prepare scene data. Since Redshift uses the video card's memory (called VRAM), you do not actually need much system RAM. However, if you tend to have several different applications open and running at the same time - like Maya, Cinema 4D, Houdini,…, you might need 64GB RAM or even more, then 256GB of RAM on all iRender servers will be the answer to this problem. All information on the server configuration is publicly posted on the iRender website. You can find out exactly what a server's specs are, what kind of CPU and GPU it has, and how much it costs. 

Outstanding features: 

• On iRender server, you can install and set up your working environment just once. All of your data and installed software/applications will be stored after each use and ready to use anytime. They also have many options for you to switch between configuration packages without setting up your working environment again, ensuring optimal cost for each project.
• You will get 100% performance of our physical machines once you use them. And there is no hidden cost for storage of files transferring, you will just pay for the time your machine runs.
• You can have several machines running at the same time (without reinstalling software) to shorten your render time.
• iRender offers Redshift and Octane license for Prime
• 100% information and data of customers are secured. NDA document provided - Companies and individuals can use NDAs to preserve their claim of intellectual property rights and to maintain the confidentiality of their business processes.

On the whole, there is no doubt that iRender is a perfectly suitable and flexible cloud render farm for Redshift projects. No longer do you have to wait for hours to render a frame when you can take advantage of the power of even 8 RTX 3090 cards to finish it in a few seconds. Other than that, not one machine but a large number of machines you can access simultaneously, like you have your own powerful render farm at your desk to freely carry out big projects without any worries. Last but not least, iRender is launching many attractive promotions for their clients. Let’s REGISTER now to experience wonderful rendering time!