PC World - USA (2020-06)

70 PCWorld JUNE 2020

REVIEWS TESTED: MINECRAFT

examples of

Minecraft’s ray tracing

in action, and to get a

gauge for the

technology’s

performance impact.

Hybrid ray tracing is

strenuous; full-on

path tracing hits hard.

Once you’re in a

ray-traced map, you

can disable the

technology and

return to Minecraft’s

default render

engine on the fly by

pressing the semi-

colon button on

your keyboard. Let’s

take a look at a

couple of

particularly

interesting on/off comparisons from

Nvidia’s maps, which maximize the visual

oomph of ray tracing. Click on any image to

view it in full size.

RTX on.

RTX on. RTX off.

RTX off.