It depends on what clustering method you are using. There are many possible different definitions of what makes a clustering "good", and we could easily conceive of many datasets where there are more than 1 possible set of "good" clusters that are very different than each other.
Since you have your baseline clustering method that you are defining as "the gold standard" you should find what it's loss function is and use that. For example, k-means is attempting to minimize the function
$$
\sum_{i=1}^k \sum_{\forall x \in \text{ Cluster }_i } ||x-\mu_i||^2
$$
Where $\mu_i$ is the centroid for cluster i.
You can easily compute this for the results of k-means, and then any other algorithm that generates centroids for each cluster. Whichever has the lowest score is doing better at clustering by the defined metric.