This render took 50 minutes on two quadro RTX 8000s (no NVLINK) and failed to render on x2 quadro RTX 6000, RTX Titan and 2080TIs.
Notice how NVLINK made the render slower on the x2 Quadro 8000s to provide the shared memory benefit (shared memory yes, but at a speed cost)
poor 2080TI even with NVLINK (22 GB) it’s still not enough for such monstrous scenes
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