3D Rendering - swap engines, or...anything?

Hi Folks,
Just got PS CC, loving it. One thing has me worried. The render speed seems really horrible.
I used to use C4D at one time. I was really looking forward to not having to jump back and forth between programs as I get back into this. (I know you can't actually model in PS, no problem).
Anyway, is there by some miracle a way to use a different render engine, or maybe some other idea?
Seriously - how do people actually get work done in a timely manner with PS CC 3D?
Hopefully I am overlooking something. I have a fairly good PC, GPU, and have already tweeked settings down.
Any tips welcome. Thanks!

Hi Guys,
Thanks for the good ideas and encouragment.
I'm with you - hopeing that Adobe is moving towards a better in house solution to rendering.
Not sure why Adobe would bundle a modeling app (lite C4D) with After Effects instead of Photoshop? Wouldn't it be a lot more useful to a lot more people in Photoshop....?
I don't have the After Effects part in my account, just PS, so...I guess I am back to jumping back and forth between apps :-(
Maybe I just need some education on proper work flow if you were say, using Blender as the renderer.
If working entirely in PS I could change the 2D and 3D parts of the file all in one fell swoop, and see the results immediatley.
If using an external program like Blender for 3D rendering, I guess I would need to add steps of:
1) Export the 3D objects from PS. (what about texturing? Can that be exported)?
2) Import all objects to Blender. (Do we merge the PS 3D layers first?).
3) Set up the whole scene, lighting etc in Blender and Render it. (adding a significant learning curve to essentially learn another 3D app well enough to do this...).
4) Open the rendered 2D file in PS and contunue editing.
5) If changes are needed to any 3D object, repeat steps 1-4).
OK if I think about the above, why even use PS for the 3D part at all? Which just about puts me back at square one, using PS as a 2D app only.
I know I must be missing a lot....I am standing by to be better educated :-)

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