Modal GPU rendering runs Blender scenes for under a cent, with L40S fastest in test
charles_irl · x · 2026-07-27
A post shows a Blender rendering workflow running directly on Modal GPUs, isolated from the main pipeline.
- The author compares three GPUs on a real scene: L4 at 4.12s for $0.0015, L40S at 2.28s for $0.0018, and RTX Pro 6000 at 3.14s for $0.0049.
- The L40S is the fastest on this scene.
- The final render at 2048×1536 with 256 samples took 9.15s and about $0.0055 of GPU cost.
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