I was going through the “realistic eevee environment” tutorial and when Blender 3.0 was realest. I decided to compare compare eevee to cycles in blender 3.0. The EEVEE render time time was 26 sec and cycle was 28 sec. Blender cycles 3.0 is 8 times faster than Blender 2.93 for this scene. I will continue using cycles for rendering.
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Scene looks good!
But I think you have an environmental disaster,
You better get on to that oil spill quickly!
Thank you for reporting the comparison of your rendering time!