Earlier this year, I got one of the
most powerful PC’s known to man, and ever since I’ve been seeing
all these Youtube videos of people destroying their own PCs with the most
insane graphics Minecraft has to offer, and I want in. But instead of killing my computer
with graphics, we’re gonna kill it with speed. RTX 3080. Ryzen 7 5800X. 32 GB of RAM. An 800W
gold power supply. Air and liquid cooling, and a crazy gaming motherboard to tie it all together.
This is one of the best PCs ever created, and it’s time to put it to the test, pushing every ounce
of its power to the absolute limit for Minecraft. But putting this all together was not cheap. It
cost about $2,000 just to get all the parts for this beast of a computer, and let’s be real,
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First off, we need the basics. No mods, no special settings, just me, Minecraft 1.18 and
the F3 screen. And without changing anything, Minecraft runs at a smooth 200 FPS. With a $2,000
PC, That’s $10 per frame. I record my screen in more than that, so yeah, there’s some room for
improvement. And the first thing we can do is say goodbye to F3. See, in Minecraft, the F3 screen
with all of its text and monitors and meters actually tanks your FPS… by a lot. For me, turning
it off doubled my framerate up to about 600 FPS standing still and 400 while I was running around,
which certainly isn’t bad. But we can do better. This is just in vanilla Minecraft, but in 2022,
nobody’s running vanilla. We have Forge, Fabric, LiteLoader, Lunar, LabyMod, Badlion, and a billion
other clients and mod loaders at our fingertips, and it just so happens that for 1.18, where Fabric
reigns supreme, we’ve got a few mods to help us out. Now of course, the classic, trusty Optifine
is what started it all and it’s had our backs through the years, available on basically every
version of the game and giving us exactly what we want: those sweet, sweet frames. But on the
newer versions of the game, starting around 1.14, Forge and Optifine’s time as king and queen has
come to an end, with the rise of Sodium… and also these guys. Sodium is essentially Fabric’s answer
to Forge’s Optifine, but better. A lot better. So, fire up Fabric for 1.18.2, throw Sodium and
the Fabric API in there so it actually works, and – oops, let me turn off the shaders – boom:
1,000 FPS. 1,136, to be exact. And if we mess around with the settings, leaving render distance
for later so we don’t go blind, we can push our numbers up another 100 frames per second. And
already, we’ve quadrupled what we started with; I’m pretty proud of that. But we’re not done
yet, because on 1.18, Sodium is far from the only mod to help us with our FPS problems. If
we take a look at this nifty list on Github, there’s actually about 40 more of them, and
even though not all of them are going to be useful here, I picked out a few that should
play nicely. Download them to my computer, shove em all in the mods folder, press play and
hope Minecraft doesn’t crash from 11 unchecked mods running at once. Fortunately, it didn’t, and
our FPS shoots up by 100 more, now in the 1300s, and even running around the map nets us a solid
7 or 800 frames each second. But now, we’ve run into a wall: as far as Minecraft 1.18 goes,
we’ve reached the end of our journey. There’s only so much one man can do with these tools if we
still want the game to be playable. And trust me, playable won’t be a word used to describe this
game in a few minutes. But we don’t have to ruin the game just yet… on one condition. We
have to throw Minecraft 1.18 out the window. See, Minecraft 1.18, it’s as updated
and recent as you can get besides 1.19 which isn’t finished. But this isn’t the only
version of Minecraft people are still playing; it’s not even the one that I play. There’s a
ton of players that stick behind 1.7, 1.8, 1.12, and 1.16 for their modding and PvP communities;
And Minecraft 1.18, even with all of the performance mods it has, is just too much to run
as well as these older versions. So if we really want to push Minecraft and my PC to their limits,
we’re taking it all the way back to Minecraft 1.8, the oldest version of Minecraft that people still
play today with good performance. And sure enough, just switching over to vanilla Minecraft 1.8
already gives us a big boost in performance over what we saw in 1.18. Add Optifine into the mix
and with some fixed up settings, we’re running at a smooth, creamy 2500 FPS… woah. That’s a
little more than I was expecting, but alright, sure. Except Optifine is just the start of our 1.8
FPS journey, because before we do anything else, we’re switching over to Lunar Client. Lunar is
a client filled with custom capes and hundreds of mods, but to run all that, they added a few
optimizations of their own. So if you just disable all the mods… you’ve got the most optimized
version of Minecraft you can find. You want proof? Then look at this. 3,000 FPS. Now that is a
pretty big milestone, but it’s also the last piece of Minecraft we can optimize without ruining the
game. Even still, we’re far from the finish line. Let’s take it to the desktop, because it's time
for MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE. Alright, my PC is good, but when it’s really working, it gets hot. Really
hot. So I usually run the fans on high and turn the voltage and processing power down to keep
temperatures cool. But if we want FPS for the history books, we need to crank everything up to
max. Is my CPU hot enough to sear a steak? Yes, but it’s worth it because look. LOOK. 3,500 FPS.
That’s more frames than my net worth! And yet, it’s still not enough. See, I built my computer
with specs high enough to run everything I would ever need. Discord, OBS, NordVPN, 40 Opera GX
tabs, even the script for this very video all while enjoying some classic ManaCube parkour.
But even with this beast of a computer, having all that open at once can take its toll on my FPS.
So if we want the absolute best for our Minecraft, we have to make sacrifices. Goodbye, memes
channel. Farewell, Youtube Music. Sayonara, 34 research tabs I haven’t looked at in a
week. We need every single byte of the RAM, every megahertz of the CPU, and every CUDA
core of the graphics card for the ultimate Minecraft experience. And even though doing
this in the past hasn’t done much for my FPS, here it went up by about 1 or 200, which…
is pretty good. And now, we’ve hit a dead end. We’ve used every performance mod, optimized
every setting, overclocked our computer and closed everything the computer was made for, reserving
every morsel of power for Minecraft. There is nothing more to do… unless we get a little
goofy. You wanna get goofy? Let’s get goofy. Alright first off, render distance, 8 chunks?
Ridiculous, set it to 2. Look at those frames. But we aren’t done yet. You see these graphics? These
beautiful 16x16 textures? Screw em, we don’t need em, I play Minecraft enough to know every block
just by the color, so it’s time for a 1 pixel texture pack. Doesn’t that look so much better?
It runs better, too. But we’re still operating on a crisp 2560x1440 resolution, ultra HD, you
don’t need that for Minecraft. Let’s go down to, let’s say, 480p. Boxed. Actually, that kinda
reduced my FPS, run it back, let’s go back up to 1080p, that seems to be the sweet spot. And if
we really want the best for our game, measuring my frames on a map like this is ridiculous.
Let’s try something a little more sophisticated: the perfect, minimalistic emptiness of a
superflat world. No trees, no water, no caves, no mobs, nothing but grass and void in every
direction. Oh, and one more thing. Remember how we closed every single thing on the computer?
Well, we left one of them. OBS. I’m sorry, my friend. But your time has come. Farewell.
Now is the moment of truth. We have done anything and everything to achieve the ultimate Minecraft
framerate. But if we really want to break records, standing here is not the way to do it. As soon
as I jump into this void, my framerate is going to skyrocket. And this will truly tell the limits
of Minecraft FPS. Are you ready? 3. 2. 1. Drop. Boys. We. Actually. Did it! 6,000 FPS
in Minecraft, double the highest I’ve ever gotten and over a thousand higher than
the previous record on Youtube by Nullzee, he’s an absolute legend go check him out.
This… this is an accomplishment. This is a day to remembered, cherished, celebrated
until the end of time. This is the day we pushed Minecraft to its limits. This
is the day we- (cuts out, bluescreen)
