Performance of new UI

I have observed performance increase in version 5.3.x

In my game on android I received 60 FPS, previously was ~45.

 

Hi. We've ran into the same issue and developed our own utility that greatly increases performance.
It's 5 bucks on asset store(see the video for comparisons): https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/58158

 

We are developing a mobile game and the Unity UI Canvas causes us to lose 20fps. Its a dirt simple UI. Nothing fancy. If its on, we get 40fps, off we get 60. Why does Unity's built in UI hurt performance so much? We are considering switching to NGUI, though I really dont feel like we should have to.

 

Some developers are stating that their games performance went up after upgrading Unity to 5.3.4xx.

 

This solved the problem for me. I was getting 13 FPS on iPhone 4 for UI Canvas with 12 images, and after setting material for each image to 'Sprites-Default', FPS went up to 60. Thanks nikita600!

 

Anything using masks ( or scroll view ) also drags down performance drastically.
Anyone know anything about this?

 

not really sure

but i'm wondering how many FPS does this WebPlayer example with a decent number of images in a ScrollView show on your machine? Link

Just wondering if its your PC.
It average a little below 80 FPS for me.

 

I just learned that there is RectMask2D which uses scissors instead of stencilbuffer me thinks. But performance still isn't too great.

 

OMG thank you for sharing this with us!! My game's fps jumped from 17 to 50(!!!) just by adding the materials!! And of course thank y'all for all the tips and tricks! <33

 

yeah! my problem has been solved too. but now cpu usage is raised.
thx for that!

 

Hey guys, happy to announce the V2.0 Optimized ScrollView Adapter is out, improved and with horizontal scrolling support: http://u3d.as/xXQ