Poly Haven's Treasure Chest as a Gaussian splat, about 990,000 splats. SplatPilot rendered the chest in Cycles and trained the splat on an RTX 4070 in 10 minutes.
Scene: Treasure Chest by Rico Cilliers, Poly Haven (CC0). Made with SplatPilot, an extension for Blender 5.3: https://splatpilot.com · Get it on Superhive: https://superhivemarket.com/products/splatpilot