Destroying My RTX 4090 With Incredible Minecraft Graphics

I am invulnerable no video game can defeat me no no no no no Maybe a worthy challenge today I’m finally going to be pushing the RTX 4090 to its absolute limit and I should have got this video out a while ago but it took me an actual eternity to acquire a 4090 and then I kind of got distracted playing other games on said

4090 but you know that’s in the past and it is officially time to pit this thing against the ultimate test of Minecraft and once again I’m only gonna be using the most devastating of resource packs shaders and mods in order to truly max out the 490s potential just like I did

With RTX 3090 and 3090 TI and let me tell you I’m sure there’s a decent chance you’ve already heard this but the 4090 is an absolute monster like compared to the previous few graphics cards I’ve had which were already pretty amazing this thing’s just a complete Beast so it’ll be pretty interesting to

See exactly what it can do against Minecraft which overall isn’t the most optimized game for amazing Graphics but you know you could always just throw more power at it and by the way in the past I’ve noticed many people saying things like well this isn’t actually using said graphics card because

Minecraft is mostly bound to CPU performance and sure this was technical true like 10 years ago but as of now Minecraft uses way more power on the GPU side than it did before and that’s not even mentioning when you have shaders going when you do your computer is going

To likely be using close to 100 of the graphics card power so do keep that in mind and for this video I’ll be recording everything at 4K which is literally four times the resolution of 1080P and much more demanding I’m trying to throttle the 4090 after all so I’m

Throwing everything I possibly can at it and by the way I still paid for this graphics card out of pocket which was not particularly cheap I still haven’t seen that sweet sweet Nvidia sponsorship maybe one day but I know you guys want to see this happen and so do I so here

We are and anyway I believe I’ve done enough explaining and now it’s time to see what the 4090 is truly capable of so to start things off I’m gonna see just how unnecessarily hype I can get my FPS and there’s little to no benefit of sending your FPS past like your

Monitor’s refresh rate but I don’t care I’m doing this because I can and this is the one test that is actually potentially going to use more of the processor than the 4090 so to start things off I suppose we’re gonna be pushing both the 14 90 and the 13700k to

The brink with some fairly default settings and an uncapped frame rate with the no mods installed we’re sitting around 750 FPS but obviously we’re not going to stop there there’s simply much more FPS to be had so naturally we will install sodium which is one of the

Easiest ways to increase your FPS and with sodium installed our FPS has already climbed by a couple hundred but we can still surely squeeze out quite a bit more than this so next I’ll be lowering the game’s render distance to its lowest setting and at this point our

FPS is starting to reach some pretty comical levels but we can go further I decided to just remove the entire world and now we’re sitting at a pretty respectable 2200 FPS give or take but this is where I ran into something kind of interesting I realized that every

Single time I pressed F3 my FPS for a split second would be significantly higher and then just suddenly drop down so essentially the F3 menu seemed to be limiting my FPS in some way so I simply captured the FPS using shadowplay which revealed our fps to be sitting anywhere

From 3 300 to 3900 but even at this point I still did the game running at 4K which means week could easily squeeze out some more performance so I lowered the resolution to a level you probably would never actually like to play at and reached an absolutely hilarious 5 000

FPS and interestingly enough our GPU usage is still higher than the CPU so I guess I revoked my previous statement but now it’s time to get to the real testing my main objective here isn’t to destroy Minecraft with the RTX 4090 but rather the other way around just to

Start things off I’m running complimentary shaders that’s kind of a point of reference it’s one of the most popular shaders available and I figure many of you would like to know how it runs on the 4090 F 4K and here it’s running at an extremely respectable 200

FPS with that out of the way though we’re going to take things up a notch all of the shaders from here on out are Ray traced which adds some significant processing power requirements and I’ll start things off with the most well-known Ray traced Shader which is

Sue’s ptgi and right now I’m using the 3.0 version and if you want a bit better performance you should go with 2.1 but regardless I’m using 3.0 and with the vanilla textures I’m sitting somewhere between 80 to 100 FPS depending on the biome and in order to take advantage of

These amazing shaders I’ll once again be using the amazing Patrick’s resource pack and Patrick’s at this point is still probably my favorite resource pack that just adds incredible visuals to the game and not only does it look amazing but it also comes with a very sturdy performance hit and you can pretty much

Already see that in action as we’ve lost 30 FPS just like that and this is only the 64 resolution version if you try to use the 256 version chances are your game isn’t even going to load in fact mine doesn’t if I’m using OptiFine although I can just get through using

Iris this does however come with another massive performance hit dropping us from 60 fps to around maybe 25. I will say though this is a massive improvement over the result I had a few years ago back with a 3090. in that video I only had about 7 FPS with essentially the

Exact same setup and if you’d like a nice Middle Ground between the 64 and the 256 resolution version there is the 128 version which exists as well and it literally just sits between the two when it comes to both performance and visuals realistically though if you’d like to

Play with the Patrick’s resource packet overall just recommend the 64 version because it still looks incredible regardless now next I’m going to be switching out Sue’s ptgi for both The Nostalgia VX and Kappa RT these are once again Ray traced shaders which by the way are created by the same author and

In my opinion to the best looking shaders available I mean for starters with either of these shaders enabled the nether is downright incredible I mean like other shaders look pretty great in the nether but really I don’t think any come particularly close to this the combination of beautiful fog and

Incredible glowing objects is just unmatched but as you would expect this comes at a pretty significant performance cost and again this is only the 64 resolution version of Patrick’s switching back to 256 drops or FPS pretty significantly although maybe not quite as bad as it did with Zeus

Although we are in the nether which isn’t quite as intensive as the Overworld and another area these shaders really Excel especially Kappa RT is an ancient city the low visibility combined with Dynamic lighting just makes everything down here downright horrifying and beautiful at the same time but on the other hand I think

Nostalgia VX once again takes the lead in regular caves and really they’re both pretty amazing shaders but you are going to need a fairly the capable computer in order to run them and between the three Ray traced shaders I’ve used in this video Sue’s ptgi still takes the biggest

Toll on my FPS when combined with Patrick’s and when using the 256 resolution version along with a render distance of 32 I managed to bring the FPS into the single digits and again this is kind of the point where Minecraft itself is pretty much the bottleneck but regardless it’s pretty

Fun to try and brute force it and while I’m kind of covering Ray Trace shaders I figured I’d also give Bedrock Edition RTX a try and immediately I noticed that for some reason my GPU usage was only at about 45 which isn’t optimal I’m not sure if I’m supposed to change some

Settings or something in order to get actual full utilization but you know I still managed to get 70fps of full setting so I guess it wasn’t the absolute end of the world let me tell you though in my opinion this Shader has the best indoor visuals I’ve covered in

This video I mean just playing around with the light sources is incredibly entertaining to me because the Shadows behave in such a believable way the outdoor lighting on the other hand isn’t anything incredible but still good enough to impress really though the Interiors in Bedrock RTX are absolutely carrying overall it’s pretty pretty

Crazy to see just how much performance you can squeeze out of your computer just using Minecraft at its base most computers can run it yet just a few shaders and resource packs can make it one of the most demanding Games available and like I mentioned this is partially just a Minecraft problem not

An RTX 4090 problem but you know at the same time I’ve still made performance gains so I suppose theoretically and at some point even modded Minecraft won’t be enough to stop the best graphics cards we’ve got a long while before that happens though and anyway that’s gonna

Do it for this video and let me know what shaders you prefer the most regardless of their FPS hit and hey if there’s any other shaders or resource packs you think I should include next time around definitely comment those below so I can take a look at them and

If you’d like to use anything that I included in this video you can find it all in the description below and anyways if you guys enjoyed this video be sure to leave a like comment and subscribe and until next time thanks for watching