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Are you also planning to offer other GPU-intensive tasks (e.g., Stable Diffusion)? Seems like an obvious expansion.
I'm trying to compile a list of all crowd-sourced compute platforms that aren't exclusively for crypto purposes. So far I have: https://vast.ai https://rentaflop.com https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com Does anyone else know of any others? Thanks!
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Thanks for pointing this out! Octane benchmark is a rendering industry standard for pricing hardware. It's useful because when someone launches a rendering job, it doesn't just run on one device, say an RTX 3090 or 1660, but rather on a whole host of devices. Using this benchmark and our pricing of $.0019 per Octane benchmark hour, a 3090 would cost about $1.24/hr. The important thing to remember, and the reason we d…
ok. that makes sense that way but.... if i have a render job, can i know beforehand how much time/octane benchmark hour will it consume?
The big question is the pricing and whether it really does make sense to pay for your service instead of purchasing hardware. Your pricing is $0.0019 per Octane hour. IIUC, that means that an hour of time on an RTX3070 - scoring 400 - costs $0.76. Cost of an RTX3070 right now is about $550 on Amazon and with a TDP of 220W and an average price (in the US) of $0.15/kWh, the total cost will be $550 + * $0.15 * 0.22. Giv…
People who already bought 3070s and would otherwise not be using them are providing the compute, so they don't need a realistic breakeven on an entire 3070. They essentially need to breakeven on electricity for the owner.
Also they're not charging .0019 per Octane hour, it's per _ Octanebench hour_. One GPU can provide more than 1 Octanebench hour of compute.
Compare their pricing to the rest of the market and you'll see it's not unreasonably cheap: https://garagefarm.net/blog/garagefarm-net-adds-gpu-renderin...
I'm trying to compile a list of all crowd-sourced compute platforms that aren't exclusively for crypto purposes. So far I have: https://vast.ai https://rentaflop.com https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com Does anyone else know of any others? Thanks!
The big question is the pricing and whether it really does make sense to pay for your service instead of purchasing hardware. Your pricing is $0.0019 per Octane hour. IIUC, that means that an hour of time on an RTX3070 - scoring 400 - costs $0.76. Cost of an RTX3070 right now is about $550 on Amazon and with a TDP of 220W and an average price (in the US) of $0.15/kWh, the total cost will be $550 + * $0.15 * 0.22. Giv…
Thank you for your question! We believe our pricing is competitive and tends to be one of our strong points, along with our speed. We charge considerably less than most other rendering services. Our farm will also render your projects much faster than a single RTX 3070 can render them. For artists/studios who do a ton of rendering, it may be worth it for them to buy up many graphics cards and create their own private…
Considering that Blender is being used more and more for high production shots, you’ll be happy services like this exist. At least until you release your feature.
Keep going. Folks who can build their own render farm, will, but the vast majority of artists won’t.
For me the most obvious issue with it is that, unlike on a reputable render farm, the confidentiality of renders isn't in any way guaranteed, which is a full stop deal breaker for most professional work. Sure this might work for hobby projects but even on my hobby projects I want to retain control of my own IP. If I used you for professional work I would be breaking some of the terms of pretty much every contract I'v…
While we take measures to secure and bolster data privacy, it's possible for hosts to be malicious. As a result, you should never run workloads containing sensitive or confidential information on rentaflop. In the future, we may decide to offer a special service that renders your work only on rentaflop-owned hardware. With that being said, there are plenty of Blender projects that don't have this requirement, and we…
Also for commercial production use many VFX houses have contracts that don't let them send the assets out of house.
This would be great for people doing styles that don't need a ton of assets tho, like procedural-heavy (geonodes) scenes.
But as a hobbyist, I could definitely use something like this, and I'll check it out!
The big question is the pricing and whether it really does make sense to pay for your service instead of purchasing hardware. Your pricing is $0.0019 per Octane hour. IIUC, that means that an hour of time on an RTX3070 - scoring 400 - costs $0.76. Cost of an RTX3070 right now is about $550 on Amazon and with a TDP of 220W and an average price (in the US) of $0.15/kWh, the total cost will be $550 + * $0.15 * 0.22. Giv…
Thank you for your question! We believe our pricing is competitive and tends to be one of our strong points, along with our speed. We charge considerably less than most other rendering services. Our farm will also render your projects much faster than a single RTX 3070 can render them. For artists/studios who do a ton of rendering, it may be worth it for them to buy up many graphics cards and create their own private…
Recruiting spare gamers' GPUs is one thing - those people bought the GPU anyway, so as long as you pay more than they pay for power, they're happy - but I imagine that's a relatively small pool of GPUs.
At some point, you'll run out of those people, so I guess what I'm asking is whether the price you charge now is high enough that investors could profitably build and run their own "mining" hardware , while you still get enough of a cut to run your service.
I'm trying to compile a list of all crowd-sourced compute platforms that aren't exclusively for crypto purposes. So far I have: https://vast.ai https://rentaflop.com https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com Does anyone else know of any others? Thanks!