• TheYang
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    1 year ago

    what’s the difference between box86 and FEX-Emu?

    • d3Xt3r@beehaw.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      The main difference is that Box86 does not support 64-bit binaries. There is Box64, but it can’t run 32-bit. FEX does not have that limitation, which is handy if you want to run Windows games (which are mostly 32-bit) on Apple Silicon (64-bit).

      There’s also a performance difference. A benchmark from last year showed box86 outperforming FEX considerably in CPU-only workloads (50% faster), but the difference in OpenGL performance wasn’t much. There have been several improvements to FEX since, then so I’d expect it would’ve closed the gap by now.