Within the demographic of miner/users, almost 50% plan to equally provide and consume GPU power, creating stability of supply and demand for the network within a peer-to-peer economy. There are additional economic efficiencies like minimizing GPU downtime and loss of potential production. For example, only 35% of miner/users routinely deployed more than 50% of their local rendering power, leaving roughly two-thirds of users with GPUs idle more than half of the time. Furthermore, over a third of users have their GPU capacity idle for more than 75% of the time.

Miner/users primarily want to accumulate RNDR rendering credits to use for scaling on deadline — with a third of these users incentivized to join RNDR in order to create elasticity from their local GPU power. An additional 25% wanted to use the network to increase ROI on their GPU investment, helping them justify new GPU CAPEX to increase their rendering capacity. Finally, greater speed accounted for nearly a quarter of users incentives to join RNDR.

Decentralization and Democratization

The survey results also highlighted a secondary advantage to RNDR’s decentralized architecture. In comparison to centralized clouds, the network is highly distributed regionally, with large-scale supply (over 100 nodes) in 4 different regions with medium-scale (25 -100) nodes in 8 regions, and beginnings of coverage in 13 different regions (5–25 nodes). This reduces latency and provides an always-on service, where overnight renders can be processed around the world at any time of day, increasing network efficiency.