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by dagmx 1693 days ago
It's very normal. High end path tracers are still very much run on the CPU. GPU rendering is improving quickly, but the author is working at WDAS. Hyperion is still a CPU renderer, and I don't see it going to the GPU anytime soon.

Commercials and mid to low budget TV shows are moving to GPU rendering , but it's very much a factor of scene complexity and available time.