With the importance of OpenCL and Vulkan in most of this it begs the obvious question; what is the best GPU for the new advances in Houdini 20.5 with Solaris, and Copernicus? A week ago I was planning on building a new rig with the RTX 5090, it's ray and path tracing hardware and Cuda cores but in light of what you're saying about OpenCL and Copernicus is AMD Radeon's next top of the line GPU going to actually perform better than the RTX 5090?
I still recommend people watch the keynote if they can. Personally, I felt my coverage and thoughts would appeal to someone who wanted to hear what a professional thought about the features besides the official marketing message.
@NelsonLim And that's what I was looking for. But you targeted a time conscious viewer when you mentioned the time saving. I think those that can't free up 2h will also struggle to free up 45 minutes. This is why your statement is a bit comical to me. Now that you've suggested we should add 2h for the original, makes the time-saving comment stand completely out of place.
