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How long will your render take?
Pick your GPU and your frames. See an estimate for yours and for our workstation GPUs, with the cost (from $1.49/hr, no GST). Every number is an estimate, and the assumptions are shown with it.
Estimated render time
Estimates, not promises. Assumes:
- Scene: Blender 4.1 splash scene
- Samples: 600 · Resolution: 1920 × 1080 · denoise on, OptiX, Blender 5.2.2
- GPU-to-GPU scaling: public median scores (Blender Open Data), Cycles only.
- Not counted: scene loading, the first render's warm-up, running out of VRAM.
Estimate on your RTX 4060 Laptop
≈ 4 min 52 s
1 frame × 4 min 52 s (reference frame)
RTX A4000 · 16 GB
$1.49/hr
≈ 5 min 23 s
Slower than your GPU on this benchmark · ≈ $0.52 for the job
Scaled from public benchmark medians, not measured by us
RTX A5000 · 24 GB
$2.29/hr
≈ 3 min 38 s
About 34% faster than yours on this benchmark · ≈ $0.73 for the job
Scaled from public benchmark medians, not measured by us
RTX 5080 · 16 GB
$3.49/hr
≈ 1 min 45 s
About 2.8× yours on this benchmark · ≈ $0.99 for the job
Reference frame measured on our RTX 5080 (1 min 45 s, 27 Oct 2026)
RTX 6000 Ada · 48 GB
$5.29/hr
≈ 1 min 30 s
About 3.3× yours on this benchmark · ≈ $1.50 for the job
Scaled from public benchmark medians, not measured by us
How we estimate
- These are estimates, not promises. Your scene, samples, resolution and memory use change the real time, and a scene that does not fit in a card's memory will not render on it at all (see how much VRAM you need).
- Relative GPU speed comes from Blender Open Data (Blender 4.5.0, median score per GPU, read 28 Oct 2026). It measures Blender Cycles; other renderers are scaled the same way and may differ.
- The reference frame is our own render: the Blender 4.1 splash scene, 600 samples at 1920 × 1080 (denoise on, OptiX, Blender 5.2.2) took 1:44.6 on our RTX 5080 workstation on 27 Oct 2026 (second render, after the scene had loaded once). It is the only row we measured; every other card is scaled from the public medians, and where our own runs differ we keep the more conservative figure.
- Job cost adds 15 minutes to upload and open your scene. Billing is per minute, in US dollars.
Run the real thing on a workstation
Pick a card and its price. Your own render is the only number that counts, and it is billed per minute.
RTX 5080 chosen. You sign up when you press Start: your email and a WhatsApp code. You pay before any GPU time, then download Connect.
Choosing between the two entry cards? RTX A4000 vs RTX A5000 for rendering.