# Factorial: Sodium
\n### The modern optimization experience, supercharged.<\/p>\n
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**Before you begin: The Factorial team HIGHLY recommends users to allocate more RAM to the game, this helps the game to perform better interms of performance.**<\/p>\n
**Factorial: Sodium** is the powerhouse version of the Factorial modpack, built around Sodium as its core rendering engine. If you’re on Fabric and want the best raw FPS gains the modern modding ecosystem has to offer, this is your pick.<\/p>\n
### Why Sodium?
\nSodium rewrites Minecraft’s rendering engine from the ground up, and the results speak for themselves. It consistently outperforms OptiFine in raw frame output, making it the go-to choice for players who want maximum performance with a modern, actively maintained codebase. Paired with the wider Fabric ecosystem, the possibilities don’t stop there.<\/p>\n
### Low-End & High-End Friendly
\n**Factorial: Sodium** is built to scale. On low-end machines, Sodium’s efficient rendering pipeline dramatically reduces GPU and CPU overhead, turning **unplayable** framerates into **smooth** ones. On high-end machines, it removes the ceiling, letting your hardware run at its full potential without vanilla’s rendering bottlenecks holding it back.<\/p>\n
### What’s Included?
\nAlongside Sodium, this pack includes the full suite of companion mods: Lithium, Phosphor, Embeddium, and more, covering physics simulation, lighting, memory management, and entity rendering. Everything is pre-configured so you can jump straight into a smooth experience without touching a single mod.<\/p>\n
### Compatibility
\n– \u2705 Full Fabric mod ecosystem support
\n– \u2705 Compatible with Iris Shaders for shader pack support
\n– \u2705 Works with most modern resource packs
\n– \u26a0\ufe0f Not compatible with OptiFine-based shaders or mods by design. <\/p>\n
### Check out other Factorial versions for your desired use:
\n– **Factorial: OptiFine**
\n– **Factorial: Nvidium**
\n– **Factorial: Vulkan**<\/p>\n
### Modern. Powerful. Open. This is Factorial: Sodium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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