Reasons for poorer performance with Unity 5 IL2CPP compared to Unity 4.6 with mono

Hi guys

I'm trying to upgrade our project from Unity 4.6 32-bit to the latest patch of Unity 5 using IL2CPP.

I've tested it so far on the iPhone 5, and iPad Mini, and we have a very noticeable loss of performance (from 60 to 30 FPS in some scenarios).

I'm wondering if anyone has experienced the same issue and if there's a checklist we should look at to guarantee the same (or better, as promised ) performance with IL2CPP.

All the best

 

Why dont you try 4.6.7 with IL2CPP and check performance.
Upgrading a 4.6 project o Unity 5 is always going to cause performance loss from my experiance.
Its not a small task.
Cheers

 

The problems I experienced....On the graphics side of things I believe there is change in the static batching if you got "larger" levels with game objects marked as static. I had also some serious slowdowns with the metal API in the beginning but later releases but looking at the devices you listed, iPhone 5 and first generation of iPad mini, they don't support metal so that should rule out the graphics API. I'm currently sticking with 4.6 for my game as I could not get the same performance on 5.

(the metal issues got at least in my case sorted or at least improved to a point where they didn't matter around April)

 

Thanks for writing guys. I've tested the latest patches of both Unity 4.6.7 and 5. I tried a particular scenario where with 4.6.3+mono I used to get 50-52 FPS now I get 24-27 fps with IL2CPP (with BOTH unity 4.6.7 and 5).

We can't run instruments as it looks like OSX 10.10.4 no longer seems to support the iPhone 5 CPU. Delightful

 

you change your xcode project scheme to release? it's set to debug by default, which had similar performance profile under mono, but not IL2CPP

 

Hey vqt, many thanks for the post.

You're right, the project was set to "debug" by default. It's better now, but still doesn't match mono, it's about 10% slower.

 

We're testing on 4.6.7, definitely still 10% slower with IL2CPP compared to mono.

On Unity 5 there wasn't a difference on mono compared to 4.6.7 mono as far as I could tell.