Torrent Clients Compared

Written by Ernesto on December 11, 2005 

A week ago I tested the 3 most popular clients (Azureus, Bitcomet, and uTorrent) to see which of the 3 performed the best.

I tested these clients with the exact same setup and downloaded 3 torrents with different seed/peer ratio’s.

My overall conclusion from this little experiment was that, based on the transfer speed and memory usage, uTorrent is the winner followed by Bitcomet, and Azureus. Keep in mind that my little experiment was far from scientific.

Client
Memory Usage
Speed
uTorrent
10.000K
 100 (baseline)
Bitcomet
22.000K
95
Azureus
41.000K
91

Wikipedia has a nice article that compares a large collection of available torrent clients. But keep in mind, less is sometimes more. Things like cpu and memory usage are pretty important too.

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8 Responses

1 Dec 13, 2005 at 15:07 by tac1

Tried the same myself with azureus & uTorrent. On each occassion Azureus commenced downloading quicker & faster.

2 Dec 13, 2005 at 15:08 by Ernesto

Where would science be without a debate ;-)

3 Dec 13, 2005 at 15:14 by Redth

Naturally, uTorrent and Bitcoment are written in more native languages. Azureus is a java application, so it’s probably not going to run as fast.

4 Jan 31, 2006 at 01:45 by Anton

I thing bit coment is faster then azerus but my freind has azerus end it works faster, en whe have the same internet conacion

5 Mar 04, 2006 at 07:47 by Yolla

Thanks Freak, µTorrent is very good.
It’s lite and easy and doesn’t eat my ram.
And here comes my 2thanks clicks :-).

6 Mar 19, 2006 at 17:57 by my new name

What The heck? I tried Bitcomet & Utorrent with same torrent file. The result, My bitcomet suck all the speed and went up more than 80k and my Utorrent juz stay at 0

7 Jun 13, 2006 at 20:47 by t d

Bitcomet has the highest speed for me. I was dling a trailer. azureus stuck at 5 kbs and bitcomet crapped to 60kbs

8 Feb 10, 2007 at 18:21 by notasignleid

Any one tried the latest bitcomet? I just eats up CPU time!!! Dunno tried multiple settings but just keeps on eating CPU!

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