All that exists in this world is the landscape and entities that generate at spawn - this is your best-case scenario, but it’s not a realistic one, because no world stays like this for very long. I started all tests with a completely new world generated from scratch using a random seed. Now, the performance of Minecraft doesn’t just depend on the settings, it also depends on what is in your world, so I am testing a few scenarios to give you a good spectrum of expected performance. In my experience, these are all better than vanilla, but on Macs at least, Optifine always performs the best in my testing by some margin, and it’s also the simplest to get working.

I have done lots of tests with fabric, sodium, lithium, and even the MulitMC ARM native hack - I’ve tried them all. I only tested vanilla Minecraft and Optifine here. Render distance and simulation distance are both at 12 chunks.

I tested a number of resolutions (1080, 2k, and 4k), and also both in vanilla and then with Optifine, all in a number of different scenarios to give you realistic expectations of what it’s actually like to play Minecraft on these Macs - because I actually do play Minecraft, a lot, on a Mac.Īll settings used were the defaults - that is to say, everything is on maximum settings. What affects your performance the most in Minecraft is the resolution you play at, and the graphics settings you choose in game. These chips are in a variety of machines, but whether you’re running it on a Macbook Pro or a Mac studio, the results should be identical. I also still have the M1 (nothing) which I also retested under the same conditions for comparison. It has the 10 Core CPU, 64gb of unified memory, but most importantly for these tests it has the 32 core GPU. The one I have to test is a maxed-out Max. The M1 Max is available in a number of configurations. Now I’ve done similar performance tests for the M1 Max. I previously posted videos on the performance of Minecraft on the M1 chips for both vanilla and Optifine. ApHow well does Minecraft run on an M1 Max?

Minecraft for macbook m1