Hi, I was having some slowness with Cycles so I did some research and found that I needed to enable GPU rendering for any significant increase. After a little more reading I found that my GPU, a GTX 1080, had one of the best compute compatibility scores as described by Nvidia. After seeing that and reading some responses saying that people were seeing 4 to even 10 times the difference in rendering times I was highly optimistic that I would see a big change…
However, after a couple test renders I was sorely disappointed. In fact, at first I couldn’t even tell if it was even making a difference, but after careful review a simple scene with a plane and a monkey head with subsurface scattering my scene will render at 32 seconds with GPU and 41 seconds CPU. Does that seem right? I was kind of expecting the results to be around half of what they were with GPU.