PovRay: pro and cons

Hello,

i installed the actuall version of blender since it used it years ago and i am really stunnded how good blender is going.
I played around with the new functions and render modes, blender render and cycles.

Actually i find blender render > cycles. I want to model some skyscrapers with precalculated textures for a game (not blender game engine) and find cycles to noisy. I checked out simple scenes with mirror and glas cubes to check the quality. But even if i put samples to 500 and higher, the lighting looks bad and the result isnt what i expected. I tried severall parameters, caustics and path brancing, etc.

Then i installed povray, and it looks really good, and my samples render even faster than cycles with cude (gts660 and quad 2.3).
But i see the version is 0.0.9, and the last update was 2013.

So any pro and cons or advise?

greetz
Rigoletto

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Pros of POVRay:

1.) It’s a renderer

Cons of POVRay:

1.) Everything else

Seriously, there are MUCH better free options out there.