Comparing Minecraft’s Best Ray Tracing Shaders 

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

Wow nice crossover between my two favorite minecraft content creators

I wish all these teams came together and decided to make one super shader, that excels in every aspect.

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

dang, reality is looking dull after this video

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.

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

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

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.

they're all so good in their own ways!!

my favourite was kappa,seus and nostalgia

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

you should also comment on performance since the main point of HRR shaders compared to SEUS PTGI is the half render resolution for better fps

ptgi E12 is just glorious

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

Do you have a terrain mod in that snow clip?

I have a 4090 and main NostalgiaVX... on a 300+ mod server trust me no matter your GPU minecraft makes anything chug. One thing that helps is playing the game on a server reduces CPU load. IRIS and Sodium saves the game and forces your GPU to work instead of the CPU with shaders.

The logo for each shader looks like a beautiful Minecraft logo. Did you design them yourself?

Nice comparison

The personal favorites through everything were constantly p8 and p12

Stunning!

Isn't embrace pixel PBR pointless with SEUS? The curseforge page says it needs a shader with LabPBR support, I've tried tinkering with some of the options but nothing seems to fix it. I can clearly see a difference when using a shader with LabPBR support.

I'm in love with your videos you know?

would love to see java ray traced shaders vs bedrock better rtx

If my pc was good enough, i would never turn off nostalgia shaders

nostalgia wins for me

Yeeees ! FPS comparaison !

shaders make me happy :)

Did you use Optifine or Iris/Oculus to run the shaders? Because Iris runs with Sodium, you can get a much higher performance with shaders than you can with Optifine.

The way milky handles unnatural light is really attractive to me but I don’t like the other aspects of it

MollyVX really seems like it doesn’t have colored light and it just makes it feel so much worse than the other three to me

My favorite shaders are probably *NostalgiaVX* and *KappaPT* Because they have good ambience and good PBR integration with good color grading The only problem I have with KappaPT is that their SSGI is very noticeable BUT GOOD SHADER IN GENERAL

Kappa would be my goto it seems the best optimization wise

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

Someone pls give me the download link to these maps they are incredible

seusは陽の当たり方がピカイチって感じする アメジストの反射とかネザーゲートの発光は強化してほしい マイクラでのアメジストは光源ブロックだからもっと光ってもいいと思う

I think the Molly VX looks the most accurate to real life

I prefer MollyVX, but I also like NostalgiaVX The most Minecrafty-feel shaders in my opinion

Verry cool👍

Where is Continuum 2.1?

MollyVX the winner for me 🤩

I like that HRR 3, it already on TOP

do ray tracing shaders require an rtx graphics card

Just watching and understanding I never can play with these shaders 😕

mmmyes every shader is a raytraced shader yes yes

Seus hrr 2.1 has better colors than hrr 3 in my opinion, it's worth checking out!

Seus Ptgi, Kappa PT, etc... are not Ray Tracing… 😊 are PathTracing but is a similar effect

Imagine playing Minecraft with these shadersbut you're having at least 30 fps in a 32gb ram pc! Bruh😊

I love kappa

where apolo Rtx edishon

bro changing preview every 5 hours

Versi mcpe pliss

this guy is not getting 20 fps with a 2080 super

Do you have a terrain mod in that snow clip?