I Tried Minecraft on Four $5 GPUs… Budget GPU experiments are always unpredictable, but testing Minecraft on a literal $5 card felt like the ultimate challenge. From the moment I installed it, Budget GPU already looked out of its league — tiny heatsink, barely any VRAM, and a design that belonged in a museum more than inside a gaming PC. Still, I wanted to see just how far Budget GPU could go when thrown into one of the world’s most iconic games. When I launched Minecraft, Budget GPU surprised me. The game actually loaded, chunks started generating, and movement felt… playable. Sure, the graphics looked like they were stuck in 2010, and render distance had to stay extremely low, but Budget GPU kept the game running at 40–50 FPS on vanilla settings. The real struggle began when I added shaders — that completely humbled Budget GPU, dropping it to slideshow territory. Even so, Budget GPU proved something important: you don’t need powerful hardware to enjoy Minecraft. With enough tweaking, Budget GPU held its own, making survival mode surprisingly smooth for such a dirt-cheap component. Overclocking helped a little, lowering settings helped a lot, and suddenly Budget GPU felt almost respectable for casual play. In the end, Budget GPU delivered far more fun than I expected from a $5 purchase. It won’t win any benchmarks, and it definitely isn’t built for modern AAA games, but for Minecraft, Budget GPU showed it still has a tiny spark left — and that alone made the experiment worth it. Timeline: 00:00-00:36 Intro 00:36-01:39 GPU 1 01:39-02:35 Test game on GPU 1 02:35-03:19 GPU 2 03:19-03:54 Test game on GPU 2 03:54-04:48 GPU 3 04:48-06:06 Test game on GPU 3 06:06-06:59 GPU 4 06:59-08:02 Test game on GPU 4 08:02-09:24 The end All Credits To:@gamerig68