<p>It seems in my experience that render garden is only helpful when you have a network or farm of machines that you can distribute the render to. If you have only a single machine, I'd say BG Render is your best bet. If you have a farm, Render Garden is better. But, either one will speed up your render since both take advantage of multi threading that after effects' render doesn't seem to use/like natively...</p>

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2020-09-29T22:39:54.717Z
2020-09-29T22:39:54.717Z
dumblook
<p>I've got a 2018 MacBook Pro 15 inch with the built in Radeon Pro Vega 20 4 GB graphics.</p>
<p>I'd like to speed up rendering in After Effects.  Which of these is more effective at doing this and why?</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/</a>      $69</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mekajiki.com/rendergarden/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.mekajiki.com/rendergarden/</a>  $99</li>
</ul>
<p>Are there benchmarks anywhere for these kinds of things?
thanks</p>

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2020-09-25T11:17:36.727Z
Both sites put a comparison to the native renderer on display: RenderGarden is supposedly 3.3 times faster while BG-Renderer MAX is 5.45 times faster. Does that answer your question though?
Florian Claaßen
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2020-09-25T11:18:57.577Z
Interested in how it works on a macbook pro without a very powerful separate gfx card
tomh
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Which After Effects renderer performs better on a macbook pro? RenderGarden or BG Renderer MAX?
tomh
# Which After Effects renderer performs better on a macbook pro? RenderGarden or BG Renderer MAX?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-09-16)

I've got a 2018 MacBook Pro 15 inch with the built in Radeon Pro Vega 20 4 GB graphics.

I'd like to speed up rendering in After Effects. Which of these is more effective at doing this and why?

* <https://aescripts.com/bg-renderer/> $69
* <https://www.mekajiki.com/rendergarden/> $99

Are there benchmarks anywhere for these kinds of things?
thanks

**Tags:** after-effects, mac, rendering, macbook

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Both sites put a comparison to the native renderer on display: RenderGarden is supposedly 3.3 times faster while BG-Renderer MAX is 5.45 times faster. Does that answer your question though?  
> **username_0**: Interested in how it works on a macbook pro without a very powerful separate gfx card  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2020-09-29. Score: 0

It seems in my experience that render garden is only helpful when you have a network or farm of machines that you can distribute the render to. If you have only a single machine, I'd say BG Render is your best bet. If you have a farm, Render Garden is better. But, either one will speed up your render since both take advantage of multi threading that after effects' render doesn't seem to use/like natively...


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