How do we find the best CPU render farm?

After a series of test videos and comparisons between 5 famous GPU render farms including Garage Farm, Fox render farm, Rebus Farm, Ranch Computing, and iRender Farm, we are able to divide it into 2 different groups and find you the best GPU render farm.

What about the best CPU render farm? How do we find the best one? Let’s talk about it in this article.

What is the best GPU render farm?

As you can see, we ran tests on 5 render farms: Fox Render Farm, Rebus Farm, Ranch Computing, Garage Farm, and iRender Farm with Redshift, Octane, and Blender projects (still-image & multi-frame). You can review the series video below:

Here are our results:

Test GPU render farm with Redshift - CPU render farm — *Redshift render farm comparison results*

Test GPU Render Farm with Octane render - how do I find the best CPU render farm — *Octane render farm comparison results*

Test GPU render farm with Blender (still-image) - the best CPU render farm — *Blender render farm comparison results (still image)*

Test GPU render farm with Blender (still-image) - the best CPU render farm - true — *Blender render farm comparison results (still image) – Color*
*(Original image colors see* *here*)

Test GPU render farm with Blender (Multi-frames) - CPU render farm — *Blender render farm comparison results (multi-frames)*

Looking at the results above, we can arrange these 5 render farms into 2 groups: group 1 and group 2. Group 1 includes rendering farms that have high speed, low cost, and rendering results with good quality, and color. Group 2 includes render farms that have higher prices and slower rendering speeds. So, here are our reviews & rating.

Group 1 – the best GPU render farm that has the fastest speed, reasonable price, and highest quality of rendering result. It includes Ranch Computing, Garage Farm, and iRender Farm.

Ranch Computing – Fastest render farm with the highest prices. As you can see, in all the tests, Ranch computing has always been the leader in terms of fast rendering speed and the price is always at the highest.
iRender Farm – Good price with the most balanced speed, and the final result is rendered correctly. In all the tests, you can see iRender often has a reasonable price with a rendering speed second only to Ranch Computing. Especially in the Blender render farm comparison (still-image) test, just only iRender has the final result rendered correctly in color and quality.
Garage Farm – Render farm has the lowest price.

Group 2 – The GPU render farm that has higher prices and slower rendering speeds than group 1. It includes Fox Render Farm and Rebus Farm. These two render farms can’t support some renderer or 3D software and especially, the speed to be considered doesn’t match the price.

To sum up, choosing what GPU render farm is up to you. VFXRendering hopes our tests will help you to make the right decision. However, we consider that the choice of render farms in the first group will be more beneficial to you in terms of cost and rendering speed.

Uhm, that’s the ranking with the best GPU render farm, what about the best CPU render farm? Let’s jump up to the next part.

What is the best CPU render farm?

We can’t be sure if we haven’t actually run the tests. Therefore, according to our experience, the expected ranking is as follows:

Garage Farm
Ranch Computing
Rebus Farm
Fox Render Farm
iRender Farm

So, to get the most accurate and convincing results, when we end the series of the best GPU render farm comparisons, we will move to the series of the best CPU render farm comparisons. We plan to run some rendering tests with 3Ds Max or Cinema 4D and Corona/Arnold/Vray or Blender and Cycles as soon as possible. Certainly, the results of this series comparison will help you to make the right one for your job.

Finally, what is the best CPU render farm? Let’s follow our next series comparison to find the answer. See you soon!

See more:

List articles of the best render farm

Ranking render farms