[pre]

The new renderer, Eevee, is brilliant and fast and is only one of the many great improvements to what was already one of my favourite bits of software.

Some of the best open-source desktop software that there is.

[panpanna]

Another renderer? They already have two parallell and partially incompatible pipelines...

[davissorenson]

Blender Internal (1) and the Blender game engine were both removed in 2.80. Eevee uses the same nodes as Cycles.

(1) Blender's legacy rendering engine which has been around since the '90s

[pre]

Yep.

Hadn't noticed Internal had disappeared, but indeed it has. Suppose there's not really any need for it with Eevee existing now.

[dtf]

Part of the original rationale for Eevee was to replace Blender Internal.

[panpanna]

How is performance (ram/cpu) compared to internal?

I used to switch to internal when designing on really low-end hardware (Atom tablets)

[penagwin]

From my understanding (SOMEBODY CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG) Eevee is designed for realtime rendering in mind - it uses tricks similar to videogames to get high quality renders without raycasting everything.

So it performs FAR better than blender internal.