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Ray Tracing for non-RTX devices

We should be able to use ray tracing on Bedrock Edition even if we don't have an RTX graphics card.

I have a powerful PC, and a good graphics card, but I can't use ray tracing because my computer does not have an RTX graphics card. My PC can handle pretty hardcore ShaderPacks on Java edition, (which runs worse than Bedrock normally) but Minecraft won't allow me to use Ray Tracing.  I have a very cool survival world I would like to see with Ray-Tracing, but I can't afford a $3000 PC, just for RTX.

So my suggestion is to allow all PC's to use Ray Tracing, but if the game notices that you are not using a very powerful computer, it gives you a warning saying something like this:

"Warning: your device does not have the right capabilities to use Ray-Tracing features. Enabling Ray-Tracing on a non-capable device could ruin your worlds and/or overheat your device. Are you sure you want to continue?" and have Continue/Cancel buttons.

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    In fact this is not possible, simply because your graphics card must have RT cores to work with Nvidia's raytracing technology (and only RTX cards have them). Some games allow you to use CUDA cores, but this is not the case with Minecraft. unfortunately I don't think that Microsoft and/or Nvidia will add this possibility in the future. because the objective of Minecraft RTX, is to release RTX cards (it is a commercial collaboration above all)

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    Ok, let's get a few things straight for people who don't know what Ray-Tracing actually is.

    Ray tracing is a method of graphics rendering that simulates the physical behavior of light

    Ray Tracing does not explicitly require an RTX graphics card.

    The difference between an RTX card and a GTX card is that RTX cards have specialized "RT-Cores" designed specifically to accelerate the calculation of Ray-Traced lighting in games that take advantage of them.

    They, however are not required for ray tracing.

    Many rendering engines, such as Blender, Use something called "Software Ray-Tracing" Which is the exact same math done by RT-Cores, but instead it's being run on ordinary GPU cores. This is inefficient, but if a graphics card has enough raw power, it can run Ray-Tracing off of GPU cores alone. In fact, every GTX 10XX Graphics card supports this form of rendering. There is an excellent youtube video by  zWORMz Gaming that showcases the 1080TI running modern(ish) titles with RTX enabled at, admittedly low, but playable framerates.

    HOWEVER

    Because of when the GTX 10XX cards released, none of them fully support DX12, which breaks RenderDragon's Ray-Tracing. The only GTX card that could run RenderDragon natively without issues is the 1660 set of cards (1660 (super, TI))

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    yea same

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    Firstly:NVIDIA s RTX is a marketing term,minecraft uses DirectX Raytracing which is available to all graphic cards that have an a RT cores.RT cores is essential to run DirectX Raytracing and many (even low end)gpus have these

    Secondly:As you can see if you dont have a RT cores in your gpu IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RUN DirectX Raytracing! so how we can run Ray tracing without RT cores?

    Its easy! Software Raytracing.Software raytracing doesnt require a RT core gpu!

    and mojang is still trying to implement to Minecraft:Bedrock Edition in the name of "Deferred Technical Preview"

    so if you want to use this and have bedrock edition (if you are at pc and using windows you%100 have it) you can go to this website:Enabling Deferred Technical Preview in Your World | Microsoft Learn

    Hope that helps😊

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    amd radeon cards like the rx 6650xt ($300) have ray tracing

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    Can my apple 16 run ray tracing?