Minecraft hasn't received a major graphical upgrade in, well, forever, but RTX ray tracing with NVIDIA promises to be a whole new experience that will add a degree of realism and ...

Coming soon to Windows versions of the game, Minecraft with RTX is one of the first big tests for full ray-traced rendering, following the likes of Quake II RTX from last year.

Whereas most RTX-enhanced games only use ray-tracing to a limited extent, Minecraft can ray-trace virtually every element of its visuals.

But I'm running this on an $700 RTX 2080 graphics card, and, no matter what Nvidia's sales figures may allude to, many Minecraft fans will not be able to enjoy the game in what is most definitely ...

Minecraft adopts RTX amid a surge of ray tracing-backed experiences, all in parallel new dedicated PC and console hardware. The advanced rendering technique advances lighting, better simulating ...

RTX is a privilege, but if you have the required configurations (Image via minecraft.net) To use RTX, one must have the specified system requirements to run the game without lag, stutter, and ...

This is only the beta release so won't reflect the final version of the update, and there's no Minecraft with RTX release date to mark on our calendars just yet, but it's due to arrive "as a free ...

To get your hands on the Minecraft with RTX beta, you’ll need to wait until April 16 at 1:00 PM ET. The beta will be available to owners of the Bedrock edition of Minecraft on Windows 10.

Getting into the Minecraft RTX beta is a little bit of an involved process, but if you've participated in any other Minecraft beta on Windows 10, you should already be familiar with what to do.

The Minecraft with RTX beta requires an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (or better), an Intel Core i5 CPU (or equivalent), a minimum of 8GB of RAM, 2GB of storage space, and Windows 10 x64.

Minecraft 's RTX beta will kick off on Thursday, April 16th, 2020. The beta will only be available on Windows 10 and will bring "fully path-traced rendering, physically-based materials, and NVIDIA ...

While many GTX cards now support for RTX though driver updates, the performance hit makes ray tracing unusable with them. This means that players who want to use the feature will need an Nvidia ...