Unity Built In Shaders Benchmarked

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When I was starting in Unity, I found the performance implications of selecting shaders non obvious - so I thought I'd create this resource!

If you've got any questions, please feel free to reply here.

 

It's an interesting chart to see. I'm sure it will help with picking shards. I agree that figuring out how shaders affect performance was non-obvious to me as well.

I don't know what materials/models you used to set up the Unity scene to test these on, but if it's something you could release as a build and have other people test on their systems as well, you could create a range of information from various computer configurations.

My expectation would be that the GPU would make the biggest difference, but that might also show useful patterns like X CPU or Y memory changes the base numbers. Plus the difference in how different video cards from the various manufacturers handle things.