Sweeney: 5000 TFLOPS to reach "reality"

[darkknightkryta]

Netyaroze said:

darkknightkryta said:
What kind of processing power in FLOPS does Pixar's Renderman farm give out?

Not sure but:

The Weta render farm that made Avatar was ranked 194-198 in Top 500 November 2009 list.

http://top500.org/list/2009/11/?page=2

 

Avatar used all of the power available at the time thats about 300 teraflops peak performance. For comparisson the HD 7990 has 8 teraflops. Quad SLI Titans would give 18 teraflops thats the best you can get in a modern PC today. 

And it still takes an hour to render a frame!