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	NA	Full supported
Latest version	Oct 2019	November 2025

(1) Since 3.0.0, axmol will introduce new RHIs vulkan, d3d11, d3d12. (2) Cpp-test Dynamic SpritePolygon Performance, tested on a RTX3070, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz, Windows 10.0.19045