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- E-Cycles just works out of the box. Indeed, you can get a good speedup with the scrambling distance patch, but you have to fiddle a lot to find values that don’t break your renders. And it won’t help at all at low spp, which is now possible with the new denoiser.
- E-Cycles supports RTX cards
- Dithered sobol in E-Cycles has a lot of fixes.
- You get E-Cycles builds every week on both the 2.79 and 2.8 version and also get support. To give you an idea, where I work we pay 140€/hour for support for one of our software. It’s just a programmer that answer your mails or discuss with you on the phone, the software price is separate. In your case, you will get 4 builds for 10€ so about 2,50 €/build. With Graphicall, you have an old 2.79.6 build from November with all it’s bugs and you are dependant on other willing to do the job of patching and building for you.
- If you like to do things yourself, you can also take the course, you can then patch Blender yourself, do as much builds as you want, based on the branch you like. And you will also learn to add modifiers, customize the UI, etc. Maybe a better fit for you?
- The new denoiser is not in 2.8, but it will certainly come in at some point. If level 3 crashes, use level 2 as it requires less ram.