Minecraft CPU Benchmarks: Beta 1.7.3

Published: Apr. 14, 2024

Test Information

A well developed Beta 1.7.3 base, with lots of extra bits as it was built through-out a YouTube video series, so it includes a lot of signs for commenter call-outs, and those things are quite lag-inducing!

As the entire area around the base has been thoroughly explored, no world generation takes place during the test pass.

The performance measurement begins right before I start moving in the video (which is timed by the fire particles floating up) and ends with the video.

Most in-game settings were left at default. The world is from Gengar's 404 Challenge video series which you can check out over on their YouTube channel.

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 -Xmx1G -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=32M
Performance: Max FPS
Advanced OpenGL: ON
Music: OFF
Sound: 25%
Sensitivity: 90%

Performance Results

Minecraft - Beta 1.7.3 (Gengar's 404 Playthrough World)

2560x1440, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 (Driver 551.86), Average of 3 runs
Default settings, Advanced OpenGL On
"Walk-through the main part of Gengar's 404 Challenge video series base."
Check out Gengar for awesome Minecraft Beta content: https://www.youtube.com/@gengarjuice69

	Average FPS	1% Low FPS
Intel Core i7-12700KF	168 289
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D	142 227
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D	144 220
AMD Ryzen 5 5600	126 212
AMD Ryzen 5 3600	102 183
Intel Core i5-5675C	82 146
AMD Ryzen 5 2600	78 137
Intel Core i5-4460	64 116
AMD FX-8350	34 68
	World file provided by https://www.youtube.com/@gengarjuice69 Minecraft benchmarks by https://nemez.net

Here we actually see something unusual from the more modern Minecraft versions - Intel CPUs have a large lead on their usual AMD competitors. And the Ryzen 5 5600 does not show its usual dominant lead over the Ryzen 5 3600.

It was quite obvious that super old versions of Minecraft will perform vastly differently, but I did not expect a complete flip in CPU preference. It seems these old versions are not as heavy on the CPU core itself, so it might be limited by memory latency which has historically been higher on AMD Ryzen.

Whatever the reason is, it is quite clear that if you play primarily retro versions of Minecraft, you should probably be looking at an Intel CPU.