Minecraft RTX looks good but runs hard
In terms of pure visual spectacle, Minecraft RTX is hands down the most impressive application of ray tracing I've seen to date.
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Ah yes, that famously believable game, Minecraft. As I said, I'll reserve judgement on this until I can do a more thorough side by side comparison, but even if the ray tracing version does end up looking much better than current Minecraft shaders, I'm still a bit concerned over how well it will actually run. My demo was running on an RTX 2080 Ti, for example (a graphics card that, lest we forget, costs over a grand at time of writing), and even that produced some noticeable stutters and juddery camera movements when it was playing at 1920×1080. I was, admittedly, recording the game at the same time for our RPS vid buds using Nvidia ShadowPlay, but still: it's not exactly reassuring that the most powerful graphics card on the planet is struggling with it.
"These are RTX 2080 Ti-based systems and we're getting roughly 60fps from this," Nvidia said. "But the goal now is to always make sure every game runs well on the RTX 2060. That's always the plan."https://assets.rockpapershotgun.com/images/2019/10/Minecraft-RTX-forest-off.png
I can't find other mentions of perf on RTX 2080TI, besides Nvidia aiming to hit 1080p60fps on RTX 2060.
So most recent apples to most recent apples:
Minecraft RTX runs at 1080p <=60fps on RTX 2080 TI
Minecraft RTX runs at 1080p 30-60fps on XSX
Dictator help needed! :p
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