FiveM Runtime Benchmarks

Benchmarks to compare the performance of different scripting runtimes in FiveM (Legacy and Enhanced), similar to AvarianKnight/cfx-runtime-benchmarks.

Results

Note

It is yet unclear whether the Lua 5.4 performance on Enhanced is affected by the profiler. See citizenfx/rfc#510.

Runtimes marked with (L) are from FiveM Legacy, and runtimes marked with (E) are from FiveM Enhanced.

The 1m iteration benchmarks were each ran 6 times, and the results were taken from the profiler recording of the final benchmark iteration. Immediately after, the 10k iteration benchmark was ran, of which a profiler recording was taken.

Ran with the following specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i7-12700F
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
• RAM: 64 GB 4800Mhz DDR5
• Legacy server: 35945
• Legacy client: 35945
• Enhanced server: 139
• Enhanced client: 138

Resource Monitor Overhead

Note

This does not necessarily indicate the performance of a runtime! This overhead is often caused by the resource monitor itself or the running machine, and can usually be ignored.

This is an overhead that the resource monitor may show for a runtime in the CPU msec when not actively running code.

Client

Lua 5.4 (L)	Lua 5.4 OAL (L)	Lua 5.4 (E)	Node.js 22 (L)	Node.js 26 (E)	Mono (L)	Mono (E)	.NET 10.0 (E)
0.00ms	0.00ms	0.00ms	0.01 ms	0.01ms	0.04ms	0.01ms	0.02ms

Server

Note

Enhanced runtimes are not included, as svgui does not seem to exist there.

Lua 5.4 (L)	Lua 5.4 OAL (L)	Node.js 26 (L)	Mono (L)
0.00ms	0.00ms	0.00ms	0.30ms

Client Benchmarks

Note

DNF means the client crashed due to the code taking too long. Refer to the Server Benchmarks instead.

Iterations: 1,000,000

Test	Lua 5.4 (L)	Lua 5.4 OAL (L)	Lua 5.4 (E)	Node.js 22 (L)	Node.js 26 (E)	Mono (L)	Mono (E)	.NET 10.0 (E)
Game Natives: Void Return Type	67.25ms	47.81ms	142.69ms	82.79ms	21.08ms	49.42ms	28.76ms	27.98ms
Game Natives: Number Return Type	169.14ms	130.22ms	226.69ms	209.10ms	87.71ms	138.10ms	136.99ms	138.26ms
Game Natives: String Return Type	176.59ms	133.20ms	488.61ms	235.05ms	336.08ms	226.19ms	355.05ms	353.38ms
Game Natives: Vector Return Type	244.78ms	195.12ms	307.95ms	538.08ms	205.65ms	202.10ms	224.00ms	219.50ms
Cfx Natives: Void Return Type	31.89ms	12.77ms	226.80ms	44.53ms	8.06ms	18.79ms	16.68ms	16.62ms
Cfx Natives: Number Return Type	52.73ms	33.30ms	199.47ms	78.53ms	27.30ms	102.35ms	34.34ms	34.95ms
Cfx Natives: String Return Type	41.08ms	16.62ms	217.60ms	89.49ms	45.90ms	91.39ms	40.66ms	45.51ms
String Concatenation (Simple)	21.18s	20.95s	20.16s	28.43ms	15.49ms	DNF	DNF	DNF
String Concatenation (Optimized)	26.14ms	26.04ms	21.52ms	9.94ms	5.98ms	4.15ms	2.10ms	2.08ms
Vector2 Math	15.06ms	15.30ms	12.31ms	0.42ms	0.26ms	2.76ms	1.71ms	0.21ms
Vector3 Math	15.60ms	15.79ms	15.83ms	0.43ms	0.26ms	5.72ms	1.97ms	0.21ms

Iterations: 10,000

Test	Lua 5.4 (L)	Lua 5.4 OAL (L)	Lua 5.4 (E)	Node.js 22 (L)	Node.js 26 (E)	Mono (L)	Mono (E)	.NET 10.0 (E)
Game Natives: Void Return Type	0.74ms	0.52ms	1.19ms	1.00ms	0.21ms	0.53ms	0.28ms	0.28ms
Game Natives: Number Return Type	1.74ms	1.38ms	2.07ms	2.56ms	0.92ms	1.50ms	1.32ms	1.34ms
Game Natives: String Return Type	1.78ms	1.38ms	4.67ms	2.75ms	3.49ms	2.38ms	3.54ms	3.70ms
Game Natives: Vector Return Type	2.49ms	2.03ms	3.24ms	6.23ms	2.10ms	2.18ms	2.31ms	2.28ms
Cfx Natives: Void Return Type	0.32ms	0.14ms	1.66ms	0.53ms	0.09ms	0.19ms	0.17ms	0.18ms
Cfx Natives: Number Return Type	0.54ms	0.34ms	1.95ms	0.87ms	0.28ms	1.11ms	0.35ms	0.34ms
Cfx Natives: String Return Type	0.44ms	0.16ms	2.13ms	0.97ms	0.47ms	0.85ms	0.42ms	0.41ms
String Concatenation (Simple)	13.31ms	13.52ms	4.39ms	0.08ms	0.02ms	48.52ms	5.24ms	4.88ms
String Concatenation (Optimized)	0.28ms	0.26ms	0.22ms	0.10ms	0.07ms	0.04ms	0.02ms	0.02ms
Vector2 Math	0.17ms	0.17ms	0.12ms	0.14ms	0.003ms	0.03ms	0.03ms	0.002ms
Vector3 Math	0.16ms	0.16ms	0.15ms	0.09ms	0.002ms	0.06ms	0.02ms	0.003ms

Server Benchmarks

Iterations: 1,000,000

Test	Lua 5.4 (L)	Lua 5.4 OAL (L)	Lua 5.4 (E)	Node.js 22 (L)	Node.js 26 (E)	Mono (L)	Mono (E)	.NET 10.0 (E)
Cfx Natives: Void Return Type	34.02ms	14.20ms	115.51ms	95.96ms	7.67ms	36.77s	17.36ms	17.45ms
Cfx Natives: Number Return Type	51.19ms	33.57ms	145.63ms	123.45ms	20.27ms	36.96s	33.59ms	34.65ms
Cfx Natives: String Return Type	40.81ms	17.05ms	172.89ms	120.24ms	39.11ms	36.95s	43.72ms	42.88ms
String Concatenation (Simple)	19.62s	19.40s	30.19s	23.25ms	7.82ms	233.86s	119.79s	122.75s
String Concatenation (Optimized)	23.69ms	25.20ms	21.95ms	14.18ms	10.45ms	4.02ms	1.92ms	3.93ms
Vector2 Math	16.68ms	15.14ms	11.48ms	0.41ms	0.26ms	17.63ms	1.68ms	0.21ms
Vector3 Math	16.72ms	16.36ms	14.58ms	0.41ms	0.26ms	17.91ms	2.10ms	0.20ms

Iterations: 10,000

Test	Lua 5.4 (L)	Lua 5.4 OAL (L)	Lua 5.4 (E)	Node.js 22 (L)	Node.js 26 (E)	Mono (L)	Mono (E)	.NET 10.0 (E)
Cfx Natives: Void Return Type	0.41ms	0.14ms	1.06ms	0.97ms	0.08ms	379.45ms	0.17ms	0.19ms
Cfx Natives: Number Return Type	0.61ms	0.32ms	1.29ms	1.41ms	0.19ms	370.41ms	0.33ms	0.35ms
Cfx Natives: String Return Type	0.40ms	0.16ms	1.47ms	1.23ms	0.37ms	369.10ms	0.42ms	0.42ms
String Concatenation (Simple)	8.49ms	9.06ms	8.71ms	0.02ms	0.03ms	39.32ms	6.31ms	6.30ms
String Concatenation (Optimized)	0.26ms	0.31ms	0.27ms	0.08ms	0.54ms	0.09ms	0.02ms	0.01ms
Vector2 Math	0.16ms	0.17ms	0.29ms	0.005ms	0.003ms	0.21ms	0.01ms	0.002ms
Vector3 Math	0.16ms	0.17ms	0.18ms	0.005ms	0.003ms	0.23ms	0.02ms	0.002ms

Running

1. Install and ensure [benchmark].
2. Run profiler record 500.
3. Run benchmark_<platform>_<runtime> [iterationCount].
   • Iteration count is 1,000,000 by default.
   • Platform is either client or server.
   • Runtime is the name of a resource in [benchmark], e.g. lua54, lua54_oal, mono, node26, etc.
   • Examples: benchmark_client_lua54_oal, benchmark_server_net10
4. Wait for the profiler to finish.
5. Run profiler view.