Is E-Cycles suitable for my needs?

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I’m considering buying E-Cycles, to replace Eevee. The thing is, I don’t know whether E-Cycles is fast enough for my needs/projects.

I’m currently using Eevee solely because of speed. I need some nature scenes like this one below to be rendered as fast as Eevee (2 seconds on RTX 3070 Ti + AMD Ryzen 9 5900x), because I like to make longer animations - and I don’t like to spend hours upon hours to render a single scene. 5 seconds render time is my upper limit.

The reason I’d like a Cycles-rendering is because of shadows flickering in my Eevee rendered animations.

As you can see, I have volumetrics in my scene. How well does E-Cycles handle such volumetrics?

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Hi, impossible to say without the scene but EEVEE is more like a game engine renderer. All fake but very fast.
If you don´t want to publish your scene you can ask @bliblubli in the E-Cycles thread if he can check the file but don´t publish it to anyone.
If the file is setup for Cycles I can test with E-Cycles on a RTX 2060 if you send the file with a PM.

Cheers mib

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Thanks for the offer. I’ll consider it.

For the time being, how fast is E-Cycles in terms of volumetrics compared to Cycles?

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Hi, I make some simple tests and E-Cycles is at least 2-3 times faster than Cycles, both 2.93.1. No settings change, open file and hit F12.

Cheers, mib

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Also consider K-Cycles, which is less expensive. And according to the developer faster than E-Cycles.

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