appleseed vs V-Ray Benchmark

appleseed is a free, open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects, built around physically based global illumination. It is designed for individuals and small studios and runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Rendering methods include unidirectional path tracing, stochastic progressive photon mapping, light tracing, progressive and interactive rendering, and spectral rendering. For shading, it supports Open Shading Language and on-the-fly shader compilation. Production tools include motion blur, AOVs, Cryptomatte, adaptive sampling, denoising, and resumable render checkpoints. Native integrations are listed for Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, Blender, and Gaffer. It works with OBJ geometry and image formats including OpenEXR, TIFF, HDR, PNG, JPEG, and PSD. Developers can use C++ and Python APIs or extend the engine with external C++ plugins. The listed plan costs nothing and is under the MIT license. The download page lists version 2.1.0-beta, released September 21, 2019.

V-Ray Benchmark is a free benchmark for measuring system rendering speed with CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs or both. Its scene tests the RTX and CUDA V-Ray 6 render engines, and the CUDA engine can combine CPU and GPU rendering. Users can run tests that take about a minute or loop them for longer runs, then compare scores with other results. Side-by-side comparison supports up to three configurations, and result details can include core count, clock speed and hyper threading. Users can save, view and share scores, filter results by device and hardware details, and browse or share through the mobile version of benchmark.chaos.com. Result exports are available as a text log or image, and V-Ray 5 Benchmark results remain accessible. The free plan costs nothing and includes the standalone application, CPU and GPU rendering tests, and online result comparison. Listed platforms are Linux, macOS, web and Windows; V-Ray 6 Benchmark supports Apple silicon chips.