
Switching to the regular GPU servers makes the Cycles version only 4 times slower.Ĭircling back to the questions from the beginning of the post: yes, Eevee is fast. Eevee is almost 12 times faster than Cycles when rendered on the same hardware.

This scene also has the largest number of samples in the test. The lighting is quite different as a result, but both versions hold their own in terms of the render result. This is again originally an Eevee scene switched to Cycles for this test. The fourth scene is an interior render created by Chanya Thaninsurayut. Hover to see the differences, click on image to see large Eevee render. Green Dragon, 3,840 x 2,160 px, 256 samples Eevee vs Cycles benchmark 1 – Green Dragon This means a slightly different scene setup for each version, to obtain a close enough visual quality.ġ.

The first two scenes have been modified so that both renders (Cycles and Eevee) look approximately the same. All tests have been done using the Blender 2.80 version available on our farm, from February 26th. This array of hardware configurations has been chosen to illustrate the speed differences between Cycles and Eevee in the two most important scenarios for a user: when rendering at home (or in the office), using the same hardware, and when using a render farm.
