Which optimization mod to choose nowadays? 

optifine is like water don't mix it with sodium or it will blow up

In my opinion i prefer sodium in terms of compability and performance

We need the performance update

my friends have really old PC's and most of them only have integrated graphics, I introduced them to the Vulkan mod and it was a godsend for them.

Vulkan is the goat of apis, theoretically devs can add actually hardware accelerated ray tracing into minecraft instead of doing all of the shenanigans with bruteforcing it using very unoptimized standart methods

As someone who owns an Intel Arc A750 GPU, VulkanMod gives me the best performance by far (Since you had to change the code of minecraft to use VulkanMod/Since day 1) but because i use a lot of mods (108 on 1.21 Quilt to be exact) I have to use Sodium because of that (and shaders lol)

VulkanMod is absolutely amazing for vanilla Minecraft (with a modern PC, it's awful on anything before like 2012 because those PCs don't quite have good Vulkan support), but it has really bad compatibility with other mods, considering it's a whole new rendering API. I think Sodium is the best all-rounder, you can do everything the other two do, but with more speed (compared to OptiFine) or with more compatibility (compared to VulkanMod)

There's also a mod called 'Threaten GL' It threatens Minecraft to use OpenGL 4.6

i would like to mention that these mods mainly focus on rendering, so the test on world gen and the benchmark map don't mean as much as the others. im pretty sure you could get better performance still by using mods such as Lithium ( mostly server optimizations ) and Noisium ( world gen optimizations ) in combination with VulkanMod ( or sodium if you need compatibility ).

Now I need comparison between Fabulously Optimized modpack and Vulkan. Also a great video

I really wish you would have shown vanilla minecraft as a comparison. With Optifine being so old it has not kept up very well with other optomization mods.

i mainly use embeddium, a forge port of sodium. but turns out there will be an official forge version someday which im definitely excited for

2 things: 1: W video 2: what is the texture pack used at the beginning with the blue hotbar?

I used to use Vulkan Mod, but i need voxy, so i use sodium rn

5:00 frametime is literally FPS. It is how much time is required to render 1 frame, so, for example, if Frametime equals 0.4ms, then 1000ms (1 second) / 0.4ms = 2500fps

Something to note for vulkan mod is well your pc has to support vulkan meaning if your computer is a few years old vulkan mod might just not work.

Hope VulkanMod gets more love 🙏 so much potential to be seen

Summary (for those who don't want to watch) VulkanMod - Uses Vulkan API, High performance, heavy GPU usage. Does not **yet** support mod compatibility. Supports 1.18.2+. Sodium - Uses OpenGL API, Moderate/High performance, default nowadays. Great for mod compatibility. Supports 1.16.5+. Optifine - Uses OpenGL API, Low/Moderate performance, not open source. Low support for mod compatibility. Supports 1.7.2+. If you're looking for the fastest performance **JUST** for vanilla minecraft, use VulkanMod. If you want less fast- but still a performance boost **AND** mod compatibilities, use Sodium. There isn't really a reason to use Optifine unless you're playing older versions below 1.16.5 through 1.7.2.

So with sodium you still get playable framerates in every situation while getting the most compatibility. Then why would you choose anything else ever? (based on what you said that vulkan mod is not compatible with 80% of mods) unless you're just playing an old version or for some reason plain vanilla with a singular mod, no textures, shaders or anything, not to hate on the other mods and it actually sounds pretty exciting that they're basically doing a port of minecraft to vulkan but sodium just seems like it has matered every aspect and left the other two for the most niche and specific situations possible

Hey just a heads up, having cpu temp that high normally for gaming is not normal (especially when it's not being utilized to it's fullest). I would recommend changing the thermal paste or get a better cpu cooler

If the 3 collab together, it would make my fps still 1 fps 💀

The thing is that terminate the best mod is your gpu cpu and ram combination for ur combination vulkan is the best for others it may be optifinw for me i get like 400ish more fps on sodium than vulkan

As someone who uses INTERGRATED graphics and has a i5 I don’t see a difference between sodium and optifine other than optifine has connected glass and more mods support it. (please tell me if I’m wrong)

you forgot about nvidium i heard only users with gtx1650 or newer can use this optimization mode and this the best one

Until VulkanMod gets the Iris treatment (which happened relatively recently for Sodium) I'm sticking with Sodium. But when shaders *are* supported, it's an immediate switch for me.

3:30 - the minimum allocation should be around half the max allocationm because java garbage collector black magic also you shouldve added because vulkan is a fairly modern API, older GPUs might be worse at running it, and even older ones might not work with it at all and sodium and vulkan only focus on rendering, which gives OptiFine an advantage in the tests since its a general optimization mod

For world loading/generation I would recommend Fastload or kennytvs-epic-force-close-loading-screen-mod-for-fabric to skip the wait, and C2ME, Lithium and Noisium to optimize world generation.

realisticly you don't need more than 60-120 fps, but if you want more than that, install these type of mods

nvidium runs so fast that i get better and more stable framerates on java than bedrock

The nice thing about the Vulkan API is that it supports hardware ray tracing, so in the future, the developers of VulkanMod might actually add ray tracing.

nice you use multiMC, great launcher, maybe you should do a video on it since it's kinda underrated

Really nice and informative video, Really hope VulkanMod will become much more compatible and the new Sodium.

I might swap to vulkan because my game flashes when placing blocks using sodium (intel gpu bug lol). Idk yet who knows

imagine 1.22 THE PERFORMANCE update also i use zedyakh modpack which is EXTRREMLY UNDERRATED with only 32 downloads but its better than any other performance modpack i ever seen

dont ever expect much vulkan can run well on those age of intel 8000 or older if you saw that opengl running poorly on your system before

Vulkan is the better renderer(MC suffering under GL's nonsupport is unfortunate), but it really does not matter in practice unless one has lacking hardware that synergizes with Vulkan better in general. The goal for MC Java is 60FPS and it is incredibly easy to clear that benchmark multiple times over in normal play(Or even the 1000+ FPS in the video). So it is very easy to just choose Sodium to keep it simple and compatible.

Idk if anyone else commented this, but the “mem” in the rivatuner overlay is your gpu’s vram, while “ram” a few lines below is your ram usage. They’re kinda grouped together by color.

Good video I’ve been struggling with performance especially when using an elytra my frames just skip to 1 every seconds it’s practically unplayable and this is while using sodium and the chunks can not load fast enough I don’t know what to do

so that RAM you were referring to was the VRAM of the GPU so around 2GB of VRAM which makes sense, your actual RAM usage was at about 16GB

A 10 minutes video for that ? Was a good a video but dang, 10 minutes for that ?

For almost all people playing with a normal render distance without shaders is fine. So maybe could you compare the mods with a higher render distance and/or shaders?

Optifine for older versions of Minecraft, Sodium for general use and modding, VulkanMod If you just want/need a smooth experience with maybe a couple other mods.

Why does it look like you have less render distance on vulkan mod? 6:00

Until Vulkan mod implements some magic compatibility for every mod, nothing will beat sodium

Vulkan has problen with compatibility. Bunch of mods won't work with vulkan and game just crashes. And i use a lot of those mods, so i prefer sodium. Optifine is just outdated, the dev uploads the mod too late, it doesn't give as much fps as sodium and it only works on forge which is not that good. The only reason to use optifine was because of its features like shaders, dynamic lights, and huge amount of settings that you can tweak however you want. But now by just downloading additional mods like sodium extra, iris, lambsdynamiclights, continuity and zoomify - optifine became a worse choice of a performance mod. Even the cape for donating is not a problem, a mod called "capes" can just display this cape for everyone.

Java Edition Performance Optimization Mods Are better Than The bedrock edition ones cause basically The Optifine Copies In Mcpe Just delete A Lot of stuff and makes Minecraft PE Not Vanilla And Ugly Af

i think using sodium or vulkan dosent matter they both have over 500 or even 1000 fps no monitor has that kind of refresh rate and you should just make your maximum fps to the refresh rate of your monitor to save your gpu and cpu usage

by the way, minecraft has been supporting vanilla shaders since 1.16.

Also be aware that VulkanMod needs a computer from the last 10 years or so on Linux and about the last 6 years for Windows

i m wandering what we ll see in the future. you know this is all about disgrace of mojang.

vulkan would generally be better if it werent for all the mods you can add to sodium to make it better

If theyd make vulkan as compatible as sodium id use vulkan, but now i stay with sodium

So dont use optifine and use sodium for compability and if you want raw performance use vulcanmod

What's the pack u were using in intro?

why not do the performans test on a low-and pc or laptop

Choose the one that gives you the most fps + compatibility if you need it.

As soon as vulkanmod adds mesh shaders and custom shader support, it's over.

Tbh sodium is way better cause you can use sodium addons, like lithium and indium to get more fps

Optifine- modern dog shit. Only use in older versions Sodium-a bit better than optifine but versatile with any mod Vulcan- absolutely godly. But bare minimum mod support

In the next few years minecraft will use vulkam lets be honest for now sodium is the way to go bc u cant play without mods they are so good.

But, what about Shaders?

next time add nvidium to sodium to see which is better

would love to see a comparison with nvidium as well

So, vulkan is better than sodium if you want to play vanilla minecraft and have a PC which supports it.

lunarclient + sodium + additional performance mods = best mc version

For world creation, I can generate a new world in about 5 seconds with nvidium. I have an 4060ti

On amd gpus vulkan might have even better performance

0:04 howtobasic moment.

With vulkanmod my fps went from unstable 15-50fps to 300fps

should've used additive to campare the others to since you showed us anyways

for some reason my pc can run cyberpunk 2077 ultra settings no raytracing on 1080p BUT IT CAN ONLY RUN MC AT 40 FRAMES I THINK MY PC IS BROKEN MAN 😭

it all depends on what is ur minecraft fps problem mine was the chunks loading it was way to suttery and laggy i used sodium and embedium and rubidium but nothing was as good as optifine probably cus optifine was since the alpha days so it know how to fix the chunk loading so optifine is the best choice cus now when i join anything the chunks load sso smoothly with no lag

3:30 you allocated 8216mb instead of 8192 mb.... unwatchable video

Nvidium should've been put in place of optifine, optifine is literal trash in modern Minecraft

certain mod interactions can actually nuke your fps, like when i used patcher once, it halved my fps even though it has many performance improvements the performance can also heavily get affected by your hardware, some mods can go better with integrated graphics when others are better with dedicated GPI+U

Pro tip: use vulkan if your gpu is getting bottlenecked by cpu

What about embbedium and those different types of performance mods?

Vulkan has good potential but it's still quite unstable

isn't ram the one under CPU ?? Because mem is under GPU and the same color

my performance option is accepting my fate of playing with 60fps

I have to use vulkan since I am on mac and vulkan is very powerful on mac

Me chilling on optifine Wondering why sodium and vulkan only give me 60 - 70+ fps while optifine 200- 300🚬 (all on 6 chunks low end)

Underrated youtuber

minecraft onlyfan is crazy 3:20

My GPU is so old even Vulkan is not supported

Isn’t fabulously optimized the best one

I had to ask what's your hot bar resources back it looks cool withe the black and blue theme

Sodium is extra skibidi

sodium bc it supports nvidium

idk but, i have laptop, amd athlon silver 7120u with igpu amd radeon 610m 8gb ram, and when i play minecraft singleworld i get fps drop when loading chunks i tryied allocating ram to minecraft, but before that when i got laptop i was using for 5-6 months it was actually good and no fps drops were then, now i have so, what is it, and how to solve it, i play in 1.20.1 with mods for fps!

FELLAS USE BATCHES OF MODS, JEEZ, WHY SOLO THEM (Edit): hear me out- optifine is ass. We know THAT. However- sodium has a lot of backing mods to make it a straight up powerhouse. Culling mods, light optimization mods, AI optimization mods, GPU utilization mods (i.e. nvidium) and many more minimal optimization mods that straight up rocket the performance to nasa levels. Vulkan, as of now, is horrid. Mostly because about 80% of mods use OpenGL. Want more optimisation from the graphic language? Use ThreatenGL. It will force MC to use the latest OGL version, meaning a tad more fps

So optifine and sodium are good for low end PC's like mine that has 8gb of ram so OF and Sodium get 1GB of RAM so it's approved for me

Vulkan doubles my pojav fps than sodium

How much vram did they all use? Since Vulkan has a much lower level access, its also easy to allocate excessive amounts of vram which is not a bad thing, it can mean that a lot of the rendering is done on the GPU. But it could also mean that there is a bottleneck if a lot of data goes through the bus vroom vroom.

Hey so I see how pure sodium and pure Vulcan compare but could you do a compareson between Sodium + Nvidium VS Vulcan please? cause Nvidium is a performance mod only for Nvidium Graphic cards wich only works with Sodium. It improves FPS.

Nixos masterrace

u should not use sodium alone

what are your specs?

vulkan32 modpack really better then sodium modpacks on my pc

OpenGL is also outdated for Macs.