Which optimization mod to choose nowadays?

In this video, i compared three most popular optimization mods for Minecraft between each other: OptiFine, Sodium and VulkanMod and explained, which one should you use nowadays and which one is better in terms of the performance.

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[lool]

optifine is like water

don't mix it with sodium or it will blow up

[TheWhosBlue]

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)

[rem_]

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

[anael]

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

[LindolasMC]

I think the reason why gpu usage was higher on VulkanMod is simple because of higher fps. Graphics card was abble work harder now since cpu was able to feed the date to gpu faster now since it was better optimized.

[f.m.f]

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.

[DenizHeadShot]

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)

[ChrisDaGamer]

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 ).

[cadelisowe]

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.

[spotishii]

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.

[project_anti]

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

[lordender_kitty_official]

Optifine works really well compared to the others on really old computers. Until recently, I was only able to use older PCs and laptops and I primarily used sodium but I tried out optifine a few times when I didn't have everything set up and I could easily run 32 render distance with better than sodium fps on a crappy 10+ year old laptop.
By no means is it the greatest on modern systems, but it definitely still has a place amongst old systems.

[lorrel]

Now I need comparison between Fabulously Optimized modpack and Vulkan.

Also a great video

[SOY_UN_RBOL]

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

[findot]

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.

[concretywatch]

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

[jimbobcheezeburger]

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

[minelelol]

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

[titustech]

If vulkan gets shaders support I’ll be so happy. I use vulkan mod for better fps and less stutters that I actually notice on my 240hz monitor

[AbdullahMansoor-jpln]

you should also compare vanilla minecraft with these mods to see the performance boost