Hi,
I know the Arnold dev team is working hard on GPU rendering. But have you consider FPGA rendering? There are new FPGA board out that are making a lot of noise right now in the crypto mining world. Like this one for example:
https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/vcu1525-a.html
The key feature seams to be a dream for any CG artist:
Key Features & Benefits
- Specialized reprogrammable hardware for computationally intensive applications, specifically targeting the fast-growing markets for live video transcoding, data analytics, genomics, and machine learning
- Dual slot PCIe full-length, full height form-factor compliant
- Delivers 10-100x performance acceleration over server CPUs with a board designed to support up to 225W
- SDAccel platform reference design for custom board support
- Supported with SDAccel Development Environment for OpenCL, C, C++ and RTL
- VU9P Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA
- 21 TOPs (8-bit integer precision)
- 346Mb on chip memory
- 64GB on board DD
