In context: At Gamescom 2019, Microsoft and Nvidia announced ray tracing was coming to Minecraft for Windows. Mojang added it with version 1.16.200. Of course, users need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 ...

Facepalm: It looked like ray tracing was finally coming to Minecraft, until Mojang Studios pulled the rug out from under Insiders. Developers had evidently left "prototype" RT code in the latest ...

Ray tracing is one of the most exciting graphics card features in recent years, allowing supported games to take advantage of hyper-realistic lighting and shadow effects for improved immersion. But ...

One of the first games to take advantage of hardware accelerated ray-tracing on PC was Minecraft, transforming the simple blocky world into a visually accurate graphical showpiece. This ray tracing ...

Light looks more natural in games with ray tracing on, but you can expect performance to take a hit accordingly.