eli5: How come PCs can render 100 FPS in gaming, but it takes so long to render a single frame in blender

Question

Blender is a 3d animation software thingy idk the exact terminology

In: Technology

Answer 1

Your computer is using a lot of cheating to render the game. Between textures, etc., it’s really not rendering every pixel on the scene like Blender.

Your Blender render is ray tracing, calculating every line of light from your light source to every pixel, and then the reflection from that pixel to others, and so on, because the color brightness of things affect the perceived colors and brightness of things around them. This is an incredible amount of processing power. Some graphics cards are just now starting to do this though, but not to the fidelity of your Blender render.