Minecraft's ray tracing exits beta as Nvidia pushes its DLSS advantage

Just in time to spite the Radeon RX 6900 XT launch and drive home the fact that AMD lacks a crucial DLSS equivalent, Nvidia announced a flood of news related to ray tracing and Deep Learning Super Sampling on Tuesday. Minecraft's drool-inducing ray tracing capabilities are exiting beta, though a handful of other games are also adding DLSS 2.0. Minecraft's Windows 10 version is an absolute ray tracing showcase. "Ray-traced Minecraft is glorious to behold, completely altering the look and feel of the game--though this low-fi legend can make even the most fearsome graphics cards sweat when you activate the cutting-edge lighting technology," we said when we evaluated Minecraft's ray tracing beta earlier this year. "Like Quake II RTX, this new-look Minecraft is fully path-traced, meaning that all the lighting in the game comes from ray tracing--shadows, lighting, reflections, materials, you name it," we said.