An exclusive feature for Minecraft Windows Edition is a ray tracing feature. You might have seen this feature in your settings. This guide will go over what ray tracing is in Minecraft Bedrock Edition.
If you are on Minecraft Windows Edition (the version of Minecraft that you can download from the Microsoft Store) and you go into Settings, and then into Video and you scroll all the way down, you'll see the setting to enable ray tracing and upscaling. In any videogame that supports it, ray tracing significantly improves the lighting in a video game. For Minecraft Bedrock specifically, ray tracing improves not only the lighting, but also shadows. In the image below, you can view a screenshot of a Minecraft castle with ray tracing disable versus ray tracing enabled:
These are just some of the things ray tracing does when enabled in Minecraft Bedrock:
- Shadows are sharper and more accurate
- Water is more realistic looking and reflective
- Lava glows and produces more light than usual
- Water is clearer and more see-through
- Sun rays are visible and are accurate to the pixelations in blocks
- Blocks such as glass and stained-glass act like mirrors
- When it rains, puddles land on the ground that can be interacted with
- The color of light actually changes color when moving through a transparent block such as stained glass
- The textures on blocks are 3d instead of 2d
And more!
Also, the offical ray tracing feature works on any texture pack, resource pack, behavior pack, mod, realm, server and multiplayer world.
- Shadows are sharper and more accurate
- Water is more realistic looking and reflective
- Lava glows and produces more light than usual
- Water is clearer and more see-through
- Sun rays are visible and are accurate to the pixelations in blocks
- Blocks such as glass and stained-glass act like mirrors
- When it rains, puddles land on the ground that can be interacted with
- The color of light actually changes color when moving through a transparent block such as stained glass
- The textures on blocks are 3d instead of 2d
And more!
Also, the offical ray tracing feature works on any texture pack, resource pack, behavior pack, mod, realm, server and multiplayer world.
In order to enable ray tracing, you need a very powerful computer with a very powerful GPU (graphics processing unit). Every computer uses a GPU in order to display anything on your monitor. Some GPUs are more powerful than others and can render powerful scenes in video games such as Minecraft. In order to enable ray tracing, your computer needs an RTX graphics card.
Currently, the cheapest RTX graphics card is the 2080. Out of all the RTX GPUs available, this one performs the worst. However, it does perform better than any GTX graphics card. A renewed 2080 graphics card by Nvidia can cost about $600 USD. This is what the 2080 looks like:
Currently, the cheapest RTX graphics card is the 2080. Out of all the RTX GPUs available, this one performs the worst. However, it does perform better than any GTX graphics card. A renewed 2080 graphics card by Nvidia can cost about $600 USD. This is what the 2080 looks like:
If you want great performance when it comes to ray tracing for Minecraft, I recommend using at least an RTX 3060. The original 3060 GPU by Nvidia can cost about $400 USD. This is what the 3060 looks like (the GPU shown in the image is the Asus Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 V2):
There is another setting besides ray tracing that can only be enabled if your computer has an RTX GPU, which is called upscaling. When upscaling is enabled, you get better performance (about 30-50 fps more than if upscaling were turned off). However, upscaling removes some ray tracing features. When upscaling is enabled, blocks aren't as reflective, and shadows aren't as sharp. If you want the "true" ray tracing experience, I recommend leaving this setting off.
With ray tracing enabled, you'll get about 30-45 fps (frames per second) when using an RTX 3060. With upscaling enabled, you'll get about 40-55 fps. With a better GPU such as an RTX 3090, you'll get about 55-70 fps without upscaling and 70-85 fps with upscaling. This video shows a great comparison between Minecraft Bedrock gameplay with and without ray tracing.
With ray tracing enabled, you'll get about 30-45 fps (frames per second) when using an RTX 3060. With upscaling enabled, you'll get about 40-55 fps. With a better GPU such as an RTX 3090, you'll get about 55-70 fps without upscaling and 70-85 fps with upscaling. This video shows a great comparison between Minecraft Bedrock gameplay with and without ray tracing.
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