The iXBT.com portal has a voluminous material with testing Minecraft RTX, a version of the game with ray tracing.
MinecraftThe most beautiful Minecraft – ray tracing game review
The author Alexei Berillo talks and shows what a graphically simple cubic project looks like using innovative technology. The article describes the effects used in the advanced version, including lighting, reflection, shadows, the implementation of graphics on physically correct materials, and explains the principle of image construction.
Attention is paid to shortcomings, the main of which is resource consumption, and to the details of the operation of DLSS 2.0 technology. The results of testing the game on the top-end GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card in three resolutions are also presented, and conclusions are drawn.
Minecraft RTX is a very demanding project and the main audience of the base game is unlikely to appreciate it. However, this is one of the first steps towards super-realistic worlds, the full and comfortable implementation of which with current technologies, we are unlikely to see in the next few generations of video cards.