Axmol vs Cocos2d‐x

This is a comparison between the latest versions of Cocos2d-x (v4.0) and Axmol Engine (2.10.0).

	Cocos2d-x v4.0	Axmol Engine 2.10.0
Languages	C++11, Lua	C++20, Lua
Platforms	iOS, Android, Windows, Mac	iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Mac, Xbox (UWP), WebAssembly
RHI	Metal, OpenGL	Metal, OpenGL, Vulkan, D3D11, D3D12 (1)
Engines	Metal, OpenGL ES 2.0	Metal, OpenGL ES 2.0-3.0, OpenGL 3.3, ANGLE GLES 3.0+, WebGL 2.0
Extensions	GUI, Particle3D	Spine, Live2D, Dragonbones, FairyGUI, ImGUI, GUI, Effekseer, Particle3D
Performance (2)	Nodes 16016, Triangles 288288	Nodes 22302, Triangles 401436 (39.25% faster)
Architecture	Android (x86, armv7, arm64), iOS (x86, arm64), win_x86, linux_x64, osx_x64	Android (x86, x64, armv7, arm64), iOS (x64, arm64), win (x86, x64), linux_x64, osx (x64, arm64), UWP (x64, arm64), wasm32
VideoPlayer platforms	Android, iOS	Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, macOS
SDF Text Rendering	Basic	Enhancement based on freetype
ASTC/ETC2 compression support	N/A	Full supported
Latest version	Oct 2019	November 2025

(1) Since 3.0.0, Axmol will introduce new RHIs for Vulkan, D3D11 and D3D12.
(2) Cpp-test Dynamic SpritePolygon Performance, tested on a RTX3070, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz, Windows 10.0.19045