Minecraft CPU Benchmarks: 2024 Update
Welcome to the semi-regular (yearly?) Minecraft benchmarking article - detailing the performance of various Minecraft versions across a wide range of CPUs!
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Testing Methodology
I tested the following 6 Minecraft versions:
- Minecraft "Vanilla" 1.20.4
- Minecraft Fabric 1.20.4 with Shaders Using Fabric, Sodium and Iris to load the Complementary Unbound shader pack.
- Modded Minecraft 1.18.2 with Shaders Using this mod list and Complementary Unbound shader pack.
- Minecraft "Vanilla" 1.17.1
- Modded Minecraft 1.6.4 Using this mod list.
- Minecraft Beta 1.7.3
Each version was tested 3 times and the resulting data was averaged together to produce average framerate and 1% low framerate. The 1% low framerate is the worst 1% of frametimes encountered during the runs, in a sense it is a measure of how laggy the game is.
System Configurations
All of the test systems used as similar hardware as possible, the CPU being the main thing changing. All systems used a fresh install of Windows 11 and the same NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU.
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D | AMD FX-8350 | Intel Core i7-12700KF | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motherboard | ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 | GIGABYTE X570S Aero G | ASRock 970 Extreme3 | ASRock B760M Pro RS |
| Memory | 64GB DDR5-5600 CL46-45-45-90 | 64GB DDR4-3200 CL22-22-22-52 | 16GB DDR3-1333 CL9-9-9-24 | 64GB DDR5-5200 CL42-42-42-84 |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB | |||
| Storage | 1TB Kingston KC3000 | 1TB Western Digital SN850 | 500GB Samsung 860 EVO | 2TB Crucial P5 Plus |
| Power Supply | Seasonic Core GC-650 | Corsair RM850i | Seasonic Core GC-650 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600 | AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | Intel Core i5-5675C | Intel Core i5-4460 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motherboard | Asus PRIME B450 PLUS | Asus Z97-P | |||
| Memory | 64GB DDR4-3200 CL22-22-22-52 | 64GB DDR4-2933 CL22-21-21-47 | 24GB DDR3-1600 CL9-9-9-24 | ||
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB | ||||
| Storage | 1TB Kingston KC3000 | 256GB SanDisk X400 | |||
| Power Supply | Seasonic Core GC-650 | ||||