- ThinkPad (i7-7500U, HD Graphics 620, Mesa): Horizon v2026.10.22.04 (two flights per scene) against vanilla
26.3 (two games) at render distance 12. Java loads chunks faster there and flies the mountain faster; the
page says so. Render distance 32 isn't published for it: neither game loaded the spawn in 5 minutes, and
Horizon kept only 900 to 1,400 columns resident when given 25.
- "Where Java is ahead" also lists scenes where vanilla's average beats Horizon's by more than 5%.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three runs of each game at render distance 12 and 32 (tools/perf_bench.py, seed 1234, 1280x720, VSync off).
Horizon's average sits at the 144 Hz display (macOS presents in step with it even with VSync off): marked as
capped on the page.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ludovic Marie