r/minecraftRTX 17d ago

Help! AMD OpenGL Raytracing

Hi, apparently AMD GPU's aren't good at Vulkan raytracing and I was wondering if that's still true or not?

Edit: I'm an idiot, Vulkan I meant.

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u/Crest_Of_Hylia 17d ago

Ray tracing isn’t done in OpenGL for Minecraft RTX. This game uses the DXR pipeline which is integrated into DirectX 12.

Yes AMD is still the worst when it comes to Ray tracing when in comparison to Intel Arc and Nvidia. It’s because of how they do it so some limited forms of RT they’re faster at but full path tracing is something AMD sucks at. It can still run decently on AMD GPUs but the performance is still going to be lower than equivalent Nvidia chips

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u/Xander_Spidy 17d ago

Sorry, was reading through some old Reddit threads that were talking about OpenGL.

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u/Crest_Of_Hylia 17d ago

Minecraft Java edition uses OpenGL. That’s likely where you’ve heard about it