Unreal Engine 5 footage ran at 1440p 30 FPS on PS5, featured no ray tracing
Today, Epic Games showed off a demo for its next-gen gaming engine, UE5.
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What you need to know
Today, we got our first look atUnreal Engine 5running on PlayStation 5 (PS5). The demo looks like it only supported 30 frames per second (FPS), featured no ray-tracing support, and rendered at “1440p most of the time.”
Eurogamerdid an in-depth analysis of the footage and even interviewed Epic Games developers. Vice President of Engineering, Nick Penwarden, said the following.
Interestingly, it does work very well with our dynamic resolution technique as well. So, when GPU load gets high we can lower the screen resolution a bit, and then we can adapt to that. In the demo, we actually did use dynamic resolution, although it ends up rendering at about 1440p most of the time.
The outlet confirmed that ray tracing wasn’t part of the PS5 demo. You can read the quote from the end of the piece below.
Hardware accelerated ray tracing will be supported in Unreal Engine 5, for example, but it’s not a part of the PS5 tech demo revealed today.
It’ll be interesting to see how theXbox Series Xhandles Unreal Engine 5, but we’re expecting better results than 1440p since Microsoft’s console has a 2-3 teraflops advantage over the PS5. However, it’s unclear if there’s going to be an advantage. While the visuals are spectacular, it would’ve been nice to see 4K resolution and 60 FPS.
What did you think of the demo? Do you want 60 FPS to be standard? Let us know.
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