Cloud vs Mac Studio: the same 3 clips

Paper Airplanes "issue" clips, 4K EEVEE, rendered on rented RTX 5090s (Runpod data center) and compared with the Studio's own renders from the same night. Left = Mac Studio, right = cloud.

No visible difference39 frames compared pixel by pixel
About 7 minall 3 clips at once, from renting the machines to finished images on your Mac
$0.43for all 3 clips (about $0.15 each)

L60 Bat Plane

130 frames. Studio 298 s; cloud 319 s on its own machine, rendered at the same time as the other two.

4K detail, Studio vs cloud
Full 4K detail, middle frame: Studio left, cloud right.
difference x20
Where the two differ, brightened 20 times. Black = identical. Only faint outlines show, far below what the eye can see.

L40 Boomerang

135 frames. Studio 312 s; cloud 307 s.

4K detail, Studio vs cloud
Full 4K detail, middle frame: Studio left, cloud right.
difference x20
Where the two differ, brightened 20 times. Black = identical.

L80 Tube

120 frames. Studio 316 s; cloud 292 s.

4K detail, Studio vs cloud
Full 4K detail, middle frame: Studio left, cloud right.
difference x20
Where the two differ, brightened 20 times. Black = identical.

The numbers

ClipFrames comparedClosest to differentAverage
Bat Plane1357.6 dB58.4 dB
Boomerang1356.4 dB58.0 dB
Tube1358.2 dB58.5 dB

Pixel match score (PSNR). Above about 45 dB nobody can tell two images apart; these are 56 to 59. Structure match was 0.9987 or higher on every frame (1.0 = identical). The side-by-side videos are shrunk to fit; the real cloud renders are full 4K.