Blender's demo scenes on one NVIDIA RTX 5090

How these were measured

• Each scene was uploaded and rendered as a normal job on one NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32 GB), the same path a customer's render takes. Cycles renders with OptiX. Nothing was tuned: samples, resolution, denoising and light paths are the file's own.
• Render time is wall-clock time on the render machine, from the first frame starting until the last frame is written, read from Blender's own log. For an animation that includes Blender stepping the scene from one frame to the next, which a render is billed for too; per frame is that total divided by the frames. Uploading and starting the machine are not billed. Loading the scene is billed but not in these times; the charged line includes it.
• Charged is what the job actually cost in credits: 1 credit is 20 minutes, billed in 5-minute blocks of 0.25 credits, so any render under five minutes costs 0.25. The dollar figures use our 10-credit pack ($1.00 a credit) and our 200-credit pack ($0.75 a credit).
• We accept files from Blender 4.4 on, so scenes saved in older versions were opened and re-saved in Blender 5.1 first, and production scenes with linked libraries had them made local or packed into the file, with their textures. Those are marked. A scene renders on the Blender version it was saved in.
• Each scene was rendered once. The GPU part of a render varies by a few percent between machines. Preparing the scene before the first sample (loading textures, building geometry, the BVH) runs on the machine's CPU and varies more, and on some scenes it is most of the time: Scanlands spent about 14 seconds on the GPU.