This can make a huge difference to frame rates for most computers that are not bottle-necked by the GPU or other components. A modern OpenGL rendering pipeline for chunk rendering that takes advantage of multi-draw techniques, allowing for a significant reduction in CPU overhead (~90%) when rendering the world.

If you try to use these mods with Sodium, your game may crash or behave unexpectedly. Note: Sodium is mostly stable at this point, but it does not yet contain support for the Fabric Rendering API, which a small number of mods currently use. AMD Athlon X2 QL-45 / ATI Radeon 4530 (user-submitted) (18 -> 49 fps).Raspberry Pi 4B / 4GB Variant (user-submitted) (17 -> 36 fps).(Though these are now mostly out-of-date, as they show the older initial release of Sodium. The Fabric community has also built many alternative mods which implement popular features from OptiFine, such as 'Connected Textures'.Ĭurious what you can expect? You can find some comparisons for all kinds of different hardware below. If you're coming from OptiFine, you can generally expect a significant improvement to performance over it, especially when combined with our other optimization mods. It boasts wide compatibility with the Fabric mod ecosystem when compared to other mods and doesn't compromise on how the game looks, giving you that authentic block game feel. Sodium is a free and open-source rendering engine replacement for the Minecraft client that greatly improves frame rates, reduces micro-stutter, and fixes graphical issues in Minecraft. Mileage may vary depending on how powerful your hardware is.

You can find a world download with this exact scene here for your own comparison against this reference.

Additional performance improvements have been made since release. Frame rate comparison between vanilla Minecraft and Sodium 0.1 (initial release) at a render distance of 32 chunks.

Opengl 4.3 amd