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Its frames often finish in seconds, but a long animation can still take hours.\r\n\r\nAt five seconds per frame, a 2,000-frame animation takes 2 hours and 47 minutes on one computer. A farm renders separate frames at the same time.\r\n\r\n## Fox scene benchmark result\r\n\r\nOur [2026 Blender render farm benchmark](/compare/blender-render-farms) rendered 50 EEVEE frames from the Fox scene.\r\n\r\nSuperluminal reported provider completion 84.9 seconds after upload began. All 50 files were local after 91.1 seconds. Its render pipeline took 66.5 seconds.\r\n\r\nGarageFarm reported provider completion 132.8 seconds after upload began. Its complete local output arrived after 169.2 seconds.\r\n\r\nSuperluminal delivered the full sequence 78.1 seconds sooner. Seconds-long frames expose everything else a farm does. That exposure favors us.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\niRender's render pipeline finished 80.6 seconds after upload completed, but manual file synchronization took another 556.5 seconds. Its complete local output arrived 657.1 seconds after upload began. Fox Renderfarm delivered its complete local output after 579.8 seconds. RebusFarm rendered 50 frames, but its downloader saved only six locally.\r\n\r\n## Short frames make startup more important\r\n\r\nEvery node must start Blender, open the scene, prepare the frame, render it, write the file, and upload it.\r\n\r\nThese steps can take longer than the EEVEE render itself. The Persistence Engine can keep Blender open between frames and avoid repeated startup work.\r\n\r\nSee the [process-reuse measurements](/how-superluminal-is-so-fast).\r\n\r\n## Nodes split the sequence\r\n\r\nEach node renders one frame at a time, so more nodes raise frame throughput. Bake simulations and other sequential caches before submission. Each node must be able to render its assigned frame without the previous frame.\r\n\r\n## Keep the Blender version and engine together\r\n\r\nThe benchmark sent the same base project to each service. 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