V-ray

 

V-ray is a commercial render plugin made by the Bulgarian company Chaos Group. Its helps you to generate photo realistic renders from your 3D modelling software. The V-Ray rendering engine has become one of the most popular render engines in use today ranging from architectural visualisation to visual effects for major feature films. V-Ray Benchmark also allows the users to add notes so they can let other users know if they’ve made system modifications like liquid-cooling and overclocking.

It’s available as a plug-in for various 3D/VFX software as well as stand alone for render farm deployment. Functions/features are similar to those of 3DS Max, Maya, SketchUp and Nuke. It produces wonderful quality renders using either biased/unbiased rendering algorithms and is known for its speed.