Minecraft CPU Benchmarks: Vanilla 1.17.1
Test Information
This test attempts to simulate a late-game base with many various farms, a large storage system, automatic mob drop sorters and a large mob farm under the entire base. The test begins in a small side-room and takes a path through the main areas of the base, ending by the mob drop sorter.
The area was taken from a survival multi-player server my friends and I played on, so the entire area is pre-generated and no world generation takes place.
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 20 chunks.
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: 1.18 (18.0.2.1) JVM settings: -Xms512M -Xmx2G -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=32M Render Distance: 20 chunks Max Framerate: Unlimited VSync: OFF Brightness: Bright Master Volume: 25% (Music: OFF) Mouse Sensitivity: 65 Auto-Jump: OFF Sprint Keybind: Q Drop Item Keybind: Left Alt Pick Block Keybind: ;
Performance Results
Minecraft - Vanilla 1.17.1
2560x1440, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (Driver 551.86), Average of 3 runs
Default settings, 20 chunk render distance
"Late-game survival base with big farms and storage systems with item sorters."
| Average FPS | 1% Low FPS | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | ||
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D | ||
| Intel Core i7-12700KF | ||
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600 | ||
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | ||
| Intel Core i5-5675C | ||
| AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | ||
| Intel Core i5-4460 | ||
| AMD FX-8350 | ||
| Minecraft benchmarks by https://nemez.net | ||
This late-game scenario drops framerates to a lot lower values than we saw with the Vanilla 1.20.4 test - more stuff going, more stuff that needs to be computed.
Notable is the even larger increase from the Ryzen 5 3600 to the Ryzen 5 5600 - an insane 71%! Then there is the uncontested lead of the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Though I did briefly have a Core i5-12400F before returning it and getting the Core i7-12700KF instead, from the performance scaling I saw between those two, I feel fairly comfortable in saying the higher end Core i7-14700K or Core i9-14900K will be right up there alongside the Ryzen 9 7900X3D, so if you are after the best of the best to drive your 240Hz monitor far into the late-game stages of Minecraft, you can't really go wrong with either - although with the Ryzen 9000 series soon on the horizon as of writing this article, it might just be best to wait.