Eli5: Why can my laptop play realistic games like Hitman 3 smoothly, but lags like hell with Minecraft shaders?

Question

I use a lenovo legion 5

In: Technology

Answer 1

1. Minecraft isn’t optimized well. You can run a 1.7.10 mod pack with 300 mods faster than the latest minecraft build without mods. At least that’s my experience (1050ti, i7 9th gen).
2. Those shaders aren’t optimized much as they are written by people in their free times. The big games that look real use high quality textures and shaders together also if you have a fixed scene you can do a ton of pre calculation for the shaders.