Comparing Minecraft’s Best Ray Tracing Shaders

These are the best ray tracing shaders for Minecraft.

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✨SEUS PTGI HRR 3

✨NostalgiaVX

✨MollyVX

✨KappaPT

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🖼️Embrace Pixels

🖼️Patrix 128x

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Music:
C418 - Intro

C418 - Living Mice [Orchestral Cover]

Alpha Symphony, First Movement: C418 - Minecraft

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Map used: Ultimate Survival World by @TrixyBlox

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00:00 Vanilla w/ PBR (Embrace Pixels)
04:14 Patrix 128x
07:17 Performance

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🖥️ PC Specs:
GPU: RTX 2080 SUPER
CPU: I9 9900K
RAM: 32GB

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[iambeenyt]

Hope you enjoyed the video :)) My personal favorite is still SEUS. Just something about the way it looks, it’s still incredible. Which fps killing shader is your favorite?? ⬇️

Also shoutout to @luffimusic (the last two songs in this video). The Minecraft soundtrack covers that they produce are absolutely incredible! Definitely recommend checking them out :)

[jaem-qlkc]

would love to see how rethinking voxels would look next to these

[bacoon]

I love how you display the different shaders, keep up the good work!

[xofox_studio]

7:20 Woah! This is new! A gameplay shot and it's really helping me dive myself deeper into the game more and appreciate each shaders

[xofox_studio]

I think Nostalgia is suitable for storytelling and Kappa is more on realism(?) All of them are so good btw! 👨‍🍳👌

[iminumst]

Interesting how certain shaders perform drastically different between the scenes. Hard to decide which one is overall better.

[mrphiee]

Test/comparaison videos like this just relax me so much, everything is here, everything is perfectly shown. Everything is so soothing and calm it almost feels like peace itself, I look forward to more videos like this, please keep up the good work!

[Cam_Wight]

Great comparison video, SEUS is the OG but I think I'm leaning Nostalgia or Kappa in these examples. I think I use complimentary on my worlds

[ScareSans]

This does such a good job of showing each shader's strengths, and I feel each one has its own use cases.

- SEUS PTGI HRR 3 is arguably the most realistic looking of them all. It has lower saturation and warmer tones, which makes it look more rustic. But since it was released back in 1.18, a lot of new blocks look a little off, like sculk sensors.

- NostalgiaVX has the most vibrant colors by far, and really leans into the cooler tones like blue and violet. It also has great atmospheric lighting, as seen in the lush cave shot (my favorite scene in the vid by far). But sometimes it feels just a little oversaturated, like the stronghold scene where the lava turned purple.

- MollyVX isn't quite as pretty as the other 3, but I honestly think it's the most practical in terms of survival gameplay. Shaded areas aren't completely dark, and it preserves details like sharp lines really well. If they add some saturation to emissive textures, as well as sunrays, I think that would go a long way. Also, the ice is SUPERB.

- And last but most certainly not least, KappaPT is also quite realistic like SEUS, but a little more vibrant. Out of all 4 shaders, it has the most light/dark contrast by a longshot. Shadows are really dark, and emissives are really bright. Auto-exposure is gonna be a must-have for using this one.

Personal favorite is probably Nostalgia, with Kappa in close second. But all of them are really nice looking in their own ways.

[ManFaceFromRobolox]

MollyVX has a lot of potentual. I hope they add sunrays and improve bloom and depht of field it would impove the experience a lot. If they added more of these effects it would look better. I know that one day we're playing MollyVX in our Minecraft survival and share it with tons of people. I see a bright future ahead of MollyVX!

[charismatic]

Man the Nostalgia one is the clear winner here it looks so damn good in every shot and keeps a minecraft feel to it. Trying it out this weekend!

[seten]

all shaders are gorgeous in their own way. 3:36 oh my god i would live there

[eatenpancreas]

In my opinion ->

Seus ptgi sticks closer to a minecraft appearance.

Nostalgia goes for a very saturated, dreamy look. Looks good in very nature-esque scenes.

Molly goes for a more realistic approach. Works super well in dark environments

And kappa is very saturated as well, but more performant. Very pretty overall

I think my personal favorite is Nostalgia

[JurassicCoxa]

Wow nice crossover between my two favorite minecraft content creators

[Koushik-lb]

my favourite was kappa, seus and nostalgia

[Josh-opdl]

Finally found the perfect pbr resource pack for vanilla like rtx! (Embrace pixels) Thanks!

[ivansoto]

Molly is my favorite, especially in the second half. Very sharp, clear and natural looking (I don't like a lot of saturation).

[tornas]

Nostalgia and kappa are the best imo. Nostalgia is best for the vanilla + look and kappa for realism

[Alxium]

I tried out SEUS HRR 3, which is the only one of these that is free to download. It was really neat and actually ran way better than Bedrock RTX on my RX 6650 XT. But I went back to BSL with Vanilla PBR textures which looks nearly as good (minus some SSR shenanigans) and runs at over 100+ fps consistently. However, if I ever just want to play with lights and make a beautiful scene, I'll use SEUS again.

[David-]

Seus is the most balanced one and overall the best imo. If only it can do better for the amethyst and the nether portal though!
Meanwhile, Nostalgia seems oversaturated in color, Molly is all good except for the light diffusion, and Kappa is a bit too dark