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When comparing Arnold vs Renderman, the Slant community recommends Renderman for most people. In the question“What are the best renderers?” Renderman is ranked 5th while Arnold is ranked 7th.
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Pros
Pro Wide feature set
Pro Built for production and highly flexible via Open Shading Language
Pro Very fast
Pro Physically based
Arnold is an unbiased Path Tracer.
Pro Production proven
Pro Support for Blender
See here.
Pro XPU CPU/GPU hybrid renderer
New in version 24. Very fast but not yet feature complete.
Pro Highly flexible
Pro Hollywood standard since the 1990's
Hugely versatile as for every shader can be written in code thus it is extremely fast and complex.
Pro Physically based rendering
RIS and XPU.
Pro Wide feature set
Pro Real-time rendering support
Using interactive rendering RIS/XPU.
Reyes was removed in version 21.
Cons
Con Expensive
Not a choice for indies.
Con Very steep learning curve
Users must have a complete understanding of C++ programming to make their own materials.