Question Editor is super slow compared to built version on Windows

My game runs at only 200 fps in editor but in build it runs at 1400 fps on my Win pc (i7-10700k, rtx 2080s, 32 gb ram). Also it has 800 fps on my M1 pro laptop. I tried adding exclusion in Windows Defender and it didn't do anything.

I totally have no idea why it happens like that. Is there any possible reason?

 

Yes. The editor is also running.

Hint: the inspector window and all the other accoutrements you see are not done by "some other CPU."

 

But I don't get why the editor has 800 fps on a weaker Mac laptop.

 

Me neither! Fire up the profiler and see what's taking so long.

 

This is the screenshot took on Win. It looks like the editor loop uses most of the time. The Time ms for EditorLoop on Mac is around 1.0 ms.

 

Hi, does the editor running at "only" 200fps actually hinder you in any way?

 

Well there you go! That would go back to this:

 

It's not. I'm curious about the significant performance differences in the Unity editor across different OS. And I'm not sure if my Windows PC has any issues, so I am trying to find out the reasons.

 

I see... Does Unity editor on Mac always performs this better than Windows?

 

Which Mac? What hardware?

Which Windows? What hardware? Which drivers?

Which version of Unity?

And this comes back to:

I'm not trying to be evasive. I don't know. I don't know why this concept is so hard to grasp.

And if someone posts something here saying "X platform is ALWAYS faster", they also don't know unless they obtained the hardware and software you are curious about and ran the profiler tests for you.

 

Look inside the editor loop to see if anything specific takes a lot more time on Windows.

 

Thanks for the reply. Here is the specific information.

Unity version: 2021.3.16f1

MacBook Pro 16 2021
Chip: Apple M1 Pro
RAM: 16 GB
macOS: Ventura 13.2.1

Windows 11
CPU: Intel i7-10700K @ 3.80GHz
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 Super
RAM: 32.0 GB

From the profiler I see OnGUI is taking the time. Mac has the same situation that OnGUI is the slowest, but uses less time. The project files are same.

Windows

Mac

 

They are both spending the most time on OnGUI, but the Mac is using less time. Other time uses seem no different.

 

OnGUI? Inside UIElements? Is UIElements "emulating" IMGUI stuff these days?

I don't know but it may be as simple as some weird part of UIElements being a lot faster on a mac for one reason or another.

 

Sorry, I am not sure what you mean by "Is UIElements "emulating" IMGUI stuff these days?". Are you refering to UnityEngine.UIElements? But I am not using UI Tookit in the project.

 

You are not, but the editor is.

 

Thank you!