The Secret Pie

Did you read my previous post about 2D frameworks for Unity 3D? I was curious how their performance compares to my favourite framework for game development: libgdx.

Again, I tested everything on my Xperia Play (on iOS you'd get roughly similar performance using an iPhone 4). My test consists of a single background sprite (640x960 px, static) and three animated sprites (all frames were packed into a single atlas texture to reduce draw calls).
Every touch spawned 10 sprites, every second touch spawned another 100 sprites (randomly selected from these three types). Sprites go from the top of the screen to the bottom of it and are deactivated and reused later (except for the libgdx test, read below). Here are the results:

Sprite count	Orthello 2D	ex2D	SpriteManager 1	SpriteManager 2	libgdx
50	57 fps	60 fps	60 fps	60 fps	60 fps
100	18 fps	60 fps	60 fps	60 fps	60 fps
150	6 fps	58 fps	60 fps	60 fps	60 fps
200	4 fps	52 fps	60 fps	60 fps	60 fps
300	1 fps	35 fps	60 fps	58 fps	60 fps
500	1 fps	22 fps	58 fps	52 fps	60 fps
1000	1 fps	11 fps	45 fps	39 fps	60 fps
1500	-	6 fps	33 fps	-	59 fps
2000	-	4 fps	26 fps	-	43 fps
3000	-	-	17 fps	-	33 fps

It's worth noting that the libgdx version was built in a rush and I didn't try very hard to optimize it (the sprites aren't even deactivated/reused, because LAZY). Still, the performance is pretty great - that's one of the reasons why I love libgdx!