Not that I'm aware of. Explore some of the alternative render modes like Draft. In regular pro workflows, we typically render wire, non-texture gray scale animations or Draft renders for motion and camera swing proofing. In the regular photo-realistic mode, if you turn off anti-aliasing and dial the raytracing down to 4, you can get some pretty speedy renders. I haven't encountered the "perfect" 3D solution yet - and I use quite a few. ;-)