This is a high-performance massive simulation of Conway's Game of Life built using Unity Engine. The main objective was to create a version capable of handling millions of cells at a good frame rate and supporting dynamic configuration changes to the simulation. To achieve this, I utilized Unity's Jobs and Burst frameworks for parallel computation and Graphics.RenderMeshIndirect API for efficient rendering.
- Type: Laptop
- CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics
- Cores: 8
- L1 Cache: 512 KB
- L2 Cache: 4 MB
- L3 Cache: 16 MB
- Dedicated GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
Results with Dedicated GPU :
Passing data from CPU to GPU is the main bottleneck here. This can be avoided by using Compute Shaders! Gonna do this one in the future!
Here's the performance stats breakdown :
- Without rendering, the simulation handles up to 67 million cells at 30 FPS.
- When rendering with quads, it handles up to 33 million cells at 30 FPS.
- When rendering with cubes, it handles up to 4 million cells at 30 FPS.
Results with Integrated GPU : The simulation is GPU-bottlenecked during rendering since it's NOT using the dedicated GPU.
Here's the performance stats breakdown :
- Without rendering, the simulation handles up to 67 million cells at 30 FPS.
- When rendering with quads, it handles up to 16 million cells at 30 FPS.
- When rendering with cubes, it handles up to 2 million cells at 30 FPS.
Build Link (Windows): https://drive.google.com/file/d/12VT9OIP2UZEpqWAuwq5kxACuaCH6nrjQ/view?usp=drive_link
Video Montage : Youtube
16 Million at 60 FPS :
3D Grid :
Inside :
