What are the best ray-tracers for architectural rendering?

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Best ray-tracers for architectural rendering	Price	Languages	Scripting language
-- Cycles Render	-	C++	Python
-- VRay	-	-	-
-- Maxwell Render	-	-	-
-- Guerilla Render	-	-	-
-- Radiance Renderer	-	-	-

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Cycles Render

Scripting language:Python

OpenGL:2.0

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VRay

Top Pro

Speed

It's one of the fastest rendering engine of the "time" See More

Top Con

Learning curve

Learning this engine can be tedious sometimes. Specially because you can choose between several indirect lighting (or global illumination) techniques. See More

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Maxwell Render

Top Pro

Unbiased

Most of the time you can get a "correct" render with just a few settings. See More

Top Con

Rendering time

Get rid of the noise in an unbiased render engine is always time consuming. See More

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Guerilla Render

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Radiance Renderer

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Thea Render

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What are the best ray-tracers for architectural rendering?

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Cycles Render

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VRay

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Maxwell Render

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Unbiased

Rendering time

Guerilla Render

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Radiance Renderer

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Thea Render

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