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Cycles Renderer vs mental ray

A side-by-side look at Cycles Renderer and mental ray. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Cycles Renderer

Cycles Renderer

Development

Cycles Renderer is an unbiased, physically based, path tracing engine for blender. It offers realistic and high quality rendering with features like subsurface scattering, motion blur, caustics and volumetrics.

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mental ray

mental ray

Gaming Software

mental ray is a production quality rendering application developed by Nvidia. It is used for achieving photorealistic imagery and lighting effects in 3D scenes. mental ray has robust tools for shading, lighting, animation, and rendering complex scenes.

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