The Nvidia RTX 3090 is currently the fastest gaming graphics card. A YouTuber now shows how the graphics card achieves only 5 FPS in Minecraft. He uses various graphic enhancements to do this. The game looks extremely good, but the graphics card gets quite stressed.
Nvidia has presented the GeForce RTX 3090, the currently fastest (and most expensive) gaming graphics card. With this graphics card, you can theoretically play anything. But what if you want to play Minecraft with the most demanding shaders and texture packs? A YouTuber has now shown in his video that even the fastest graphics card may not necessarily achieve that.
Who is it about: The YouTuber AsianHalfSquat specializes in Minecraft and related topics. In his videos, he often presents modifications, graphic enhancements, or gimmicks that make life easier. Currently, the YouTuber has 563,000 subscribers.
What you can see: In one of his recent videos, AsianHalfSquat played Minecraft on a GeForce RTX 3090. However, he didn’t just play the game, but also installed multiple graphic enhancements. The video has now almost 1.4 million views.
At the beginning, he set himself a high goal: he wants to push the game to under 1 FPS. He explains at the start of his video that less is even better, but 1 FPS is already a goal. He happily adds, “It’s time to make my PC suffer.”
By the way, he recorded the game in 4K, although he usually plays in WQHD (1440p). Here you can watch the (English) video on YouTube:
To achieve under 1 FPS on his PC, he prepared a total of three settings, each using different texture packs.
Minecraft does not need a fast graphics card
What you should consider: Minecraft requires a lot of RAM, a lot of computing power, and therefore a fast CPU (via minecraft.de-gamepedia.com). A weak processor limits this faster than a weak graphics card.
Without appropriate modifications or additional shaders, the GeForce RTX 3090 cannot be fully utilized. The YouTuber explains in his video that it is mainly about pushing his PC to its limits, which is why he specifically chose certain shaders.
Raytracing update for Minecraft: Only since the raytracing update or with high-resolution shaders does the graphics card become interesting in Minecraft (via Techstage.de), as this gives the card calculations to work on. Raytracing can currently only be used with Nvidia graphics cards. This can also be done easily with an RTX 2060.
This will get an official successor in February 2021 with the RTX 3060. This one is mainly aimed at Full HD gamers and the mid-range market and is a competitor for a possible Radeon RX 6700 XT:
YouTuber stresses RTX 3090 with Minecraft
This is his first setting: For his first test, he installed the “PBR Resource Pack” with enabled raytracing. But to his disappointment, he finds that the RTX 3090 achieves an easy 45 FPS here. He is not very satisfied, as he explains that he “actually wants a setup that makes the game unplayable.”
This is his second setting: For his test, he installed Patrick’s Resource Pack with a resolution of 256 pixels. The YouTuber deliberately chose a very high-resolution pack; after all, the game should become unplayable.
AsianHalfSquat now enters a large forest with the activated texture pack, and the result is immediately noticeable: the game runs anything but smoothly, and it barely achieves 7 FPS. He has reached his goal because with 7 FPS, one can hardly play properly.
This is his third setting: Since he has not yet reached his actual goal (1 FPS), he tests another texture pack. This time, he installs the “Stratum resource pack” for Minecraft with a resolution of 2048 pixels with enabled raytracing shaders.
The YouTuber is impressed by the extreme details of the rocks – rather less by his framerate. Because at this resolution, it is 5 FPS.
This is his final test: Finally, he increases the render quality to factor 1.16. Thus, he has finally achieved his goal of making Minecraft absolutely unplayable.
If you are looking for more crazy ideas of what you can do with your RTX 3000 graphics card, you will find a driver. This one has installed multiple RTX graphics cards in his BMW. With this, he wants to mine while on the go. We show you what it looks like and whether it really works in our article.
