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I am learning blender through the Donut tutorial by Blender Guru on Youtube. I rendered this image and it took a few minutes. enter image description here

Then in the next video where he explained materials and added colors, I tried to render again by adding the materials and suddenly it says it is gonna take 2 hours!! Here is the screenshot of the new rendering process. enter image description here

I am using Macbook Air M1, Blender V3.1. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong? Here is the link to the blend file. Also I know that M1 MacBook air comes with a 7 core GPU. But I cannot find the Cycles Render Devices under settings. Why is this?

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just change the time limit value to e.g. 5 secs (or how long you want to wait)

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Yes, this will decrease your quality. But for impatient people this settings is perfect.

Also you can try to change to GPU. Might be quicker.

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  • $\begingroup$ Hey thanks. That worked. And about that GPU part like I said, I can't find the option to select the GPU in preferences like they show in all the tutorials. $\endgroup$
    – Chaitanya Chavali
    Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 13:42
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    – Chris
    Commented Feb 2, 2022 at 13:48
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I assume you are using 3.1 for native metal support. Try enabling Experimental Feature Set in Cycles. I think this will let you choose your render device in preferences.

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