Minecraft’s RTX-powered ray tracing arrives in beta later this week
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Minecraft’s cherished but rudimentary pixel art sandboxes are about to get a massive visual overhaul, as Microsoft and Nvidia are announcing RTX-powered ray tracing is coming in beta form to the Windows version of Minecraft later this week.
The beta will launch at 1PM ET on Thursday, April 16th, and it will bring big upgrades to lighting, reflections, shadows, and other key graphical elements to anyone using a Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card. Minecraft’s ray tracing was first announced last October, but it only had a 2020 release date at the time.
Alongside 4K resolution at decent frame rates, real time ray tracing is the key differentiator for Nvidia’s Turing-based RTX cards that first released back in fall 2018. The rendering...
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