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There's Octane, too, which afaict is used a little more than Redshift, at least in my circles.

Adobe Media Encoder (and by extension Premiere and AE) can do multi-GPU rendering as well, which starts to matter when you have huge comps. I've worked with 2D animators who need to turn around footage really quickly and a bunch of them are on multi-GPU rigs.

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What are your circles? Is it arch vis, tv cartoons, commercials, or something? I'm trying to figure out from their reel why I haven't seen much of Octane in production. Octane does appear to be CUDA only.

Adobe Media Encoder does seem to support OpenCL and CUDA, but the GPU acceleration only looks like it works with certain transforms and filters, not with encoding. So I can see it helping 2d animators, but much less so for video editors--especially with multiple GPUs.

I feel like GPU rendering has been teased for like 10+ years now. Only within the past few years am I seeing studios upgrade their render farm in earnest to accommodate GPUs.

Architecture/immersive media previz seems to be all C4D + Octane, and I've seen lots of the same in 3D motion graphics as well (although I'm less familiar with the field).

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