No. 6 of 24 ·Minecraft Performance Mods

Nvidium

Linux

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Two barsScore 6.4

Nvidium is ranked #6 of 24 in Minecraft performance mods on Freedom251. It runs on Linux. There is a free plan.

Nvidium plans and pricing

Nvidium Free Requires Sodium · NVIDIA GPU supporting mesh shaders modrinth.com · 5 Oct 2026

Purpose: Nvidium is an alternate rendering backend for Sodium that uses NVIDIA features to render large amounts of terrain geometry.
Hardware requirement: The project says it requires Sodium and an NVIDIA GTX 1600 series or newer GPU with Turing architecture or later.
Game edition: The listed compatibility is for Minecraft: Java Edition.
Mod loaders: The listed platforms are Fabric and Quilt.
Client-side use: The project is listed as client-side.
Rendering approach: Nvidium uses mesh shaders for a near fully GPU-driven rendering pipeline and terrain geometry culling.
Sodium dependency: Nvidium requires Sodium to run.
Shader limitation: Nvidium disables itself when Iris is actively using shaders.
Non-NVIDIA systems: The project says it is not functional on non-NVIDIA systems and automatically disables itself there without affecting gameplay.
Stability warning: The project warns that its use of mesh shaders may cause Minecraft to terminate unexpectedly.
License: The project is licensed under LGPL-3.0-only.
Support channel: The project links to GitHub for issue reports and to a Discord server for community contact.
Rendering: Its mesh shader pipeline performs GPU-driven terrain geometry culling to help the GPU work more efficiently.
Non-NVIDIA behavior: The mod is not functional on non-NVIDIA systems and automatically disables itself there.
Price from: Free

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