The present invention discloses a cloud-client rendering computing method based on an adaptive virtualized rendering pipeline, comprising the following steps of: defining a rendering pipeline, including defining a rendering resource, a rendering algorithm, and a read-write relationship between the rendering algorithm and the rendering resource; selecting an optimal cloud-client computing distribution solution in a real-time manner from a cloud-client computing distribution solution set comprising each rendering resource that is allocated to a cloud or client for computing, based on self-defined optimization objectives and an optimization budget of a framework user; and executing a corresponding rendering algorithm on cloud and/or on a client according to the cloud-client computing distribution solution, thereby obtaining a rendering result. The rendering framework can adaptively select the cloud-client computing distribution solution upon cloud-client combined rendering and dynamically adjust it with a change of an optimization parameter.