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Feature comparison

This is an overview of how features work in the Unity built-in Render Pipeline and in the Lightweight Render Pipeline.

	Unity Built-in render pipeline	Lightweight Render Pipeline
Platform Coverage	All	All
Rendering Paths	Multi-pass Forward Multi-pass Deferred	Single-pass Forward
Lighting Attenuation	Separate precomputed attenuation textures for Point and Spot Vertex light attenuation does not reach 0 intensity at range boundary.	Physically Based Light Attenuation. Light intensity decreases by the inverse-square law.
Color Space	Linear with sRGB light intensity sRGB	Linear with linear light intensity sRGB.
Realtime Lights	Directional, Spot and Point Amount of pixel lights controlled by Quality Settings Forward path limited to 8 pixel lights. Supports up to 4 vertex point lights.	Directional, Spot and Point Amount of pixel lights controlled by LWRP Asset 1 Main Directional light, always shaded per pixel Up to 8 additional lights that can be shaded per pixel or per vertex
Light Modes	Baked Mixed - Baked Indirect - Shadow Mask - Distance Shadowmask - Subtractive Realtime	Baked Mixed (WIP / ETA Unity 19.1) - Baked Indirect - Shadow Mask - Subtractive Realtime
Global Illumination	Directional, Spot, Point and Rectangular Area Lights Baked Lightmap (Non-Directional and Directional) Light Probes Realtime Dynamic Lightmap Realtime Lightprobes	Directional, Spot, Point and Rectangular Area Lights Baked Lightmap (Non-Directional and Directional) Light Probes Realtime GI Not Supported.
Light Culling	Per-Object. No Compute.	Per-Object. No Compute.
Shader Library	Dozens of non physically based shaders specializations Unified Standard PBS Shaders Metallic workflow Specular workflow Roughness workflow	Unified non-physically based shader (Simple Lit) Unified physically based shader (Lit) that covers Metallic and Specular workflows
Physically Based Shading	Disney Diffuse + Cook Torrance (GGX, Smith, Schlick) Specular Lambertian Diffuse + Simplified Cook Torrance (GGX, Simplified KSK and Schlick) Specular Lambertian Diffuse + Non-Microfaceted LUT Specular	Lambertian Diffuse + Simplified Cook Torrance (GGX, Simplified KSK and Schlick) Specular
Light Cookies	Monochrome	Single light cookie support for the main light.
Light Probes Modes	One interpolated probe LPPV	One interpolated probe
Reflection Probes	Sorted per-object Blend between at most 2 probes	Sorted per-object No blending
Shadows Features	PSSM Stable and Close Fit· Filtering: PCF No depth clip. Pancaking done in vertex.	PSSM Stable Fit Filtering: PCF No depth clip. Pancaking done in vertex.
Shadow Modes	Light Space Screen Space	Light Space Screen Space
Shadow Casting Lights	Directional, Spot, Point Multiple shadow light casters, one per pass.	Directional and Spot Single shadow light caster supported as main light.
General
Camera	Sorts camera by depth value Stack Management Groups by common camera state Handles depth state between cameras	Sorts camera by depth value No stack management RenderTarget scale supported Game renders at scaled resolution UI renders at native resolution
Anti-Aliasing	MSAA TAA	MSAA
Pipeline Additional Data	Motion Vectors	None
Post-Processing	Legacy Post-Processing stack New Post-Processing Stack	Subset of the new Post-Processing Stack FX No support for: - TAA - Motion Blur - SSR
Debug option	Display GBuffer Display various bake lighting view mode
Sky lighting	Procedural Sky Cubemap/LatLong Sky Ambient Lighting	Procedural Sky Cubemap Ambient Lighting