Minecraft CPU Benchmarks: Modded 1.6.4
Test Information
A roughly mid-game base in a heavily modded pack consisting of 109 mods from the "golden era" of tech mods - no I'm definitely not salty about the decline of IC2, GregTech, Buildcraft, RedPower Project Re... ugh.
Anyway, the test begins at the ore processing and auto-crafting area and follows a path through the main engineering core of the base, then down the stairs towards the mine and mob farm, ending up by the lake with a nice view of the whole facility.
As the entire area around the base has been thoroughly explored, no world generation takes place during the test pass.
The performance measurement begins immediately after the manually initiated chunk reload and ends with the video.
Most in-game settings were left at default. Render distance was set to "Far". The full list of mods alongside the configuration files can be downloaded here as a 7zip archive.
Detailed Settings
If a setting option is not explicitly mentioned, it was left at the default value. The JVM settings are the same as what the official Minecraft launcher uses.
Java: 1.8 (8u341) JVM settings: -Xms512M -Xmx6G -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=32M Use VSync: OFF Brightness: Bright Render Distance: Far Performance: Max FPS Advanced OpenGL: OFF
Performance Results
Minecraft - Modded 1.6.4 (109 Mods)
2560x1440, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (Driver 551.86), Average of 3 runs
Default settings, "Far" render distance, Advanced OpenGL Off
"Advanced base with complex AE system automation, IC2/GregTech and farms."
| Average FPS | 1% Low FPS | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | ||
| Intel Core i7-12700KF | ||
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D | ||
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600 | ||
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | ||
| AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | ||
| Intel Core i5-5675C | ||
| Intel Core i5-4460 | ||
| AMD FX-8350 | ||
| Minecraft benchmarks by https://nemez.net | ||
As has become a trend with heavier or later-game bases, the framerates are quite low, so again, for optimal high refreshrate gaming you will want to grab the best latest generation CPU you can get.
On the other hand, these older versions of Minecraft don't have such a sharp performance drop-off, despite the mods. So even a Ryzen 5 3600 will be perfectly adequate for some medium refreshrate gaming, and old CPUs like the Core i5-4460 are borderline serviceable if you can't get the money to upgrade to something newer.