We're taking it none of you have forgotten the UE5 tech demo yet. Who could have? Epic Games, in a press release, said that with the upcoming engine the company is aiming to "achieve photorealism on par with movie CG and real life", and the demo we all saw didn't fail to impress these ambitions on us. But what we didn't see is how GPU-intensive this demo was – it turns out, not all that much.
We recently spoke to Epic Games and learnt a little more about making Unreal Engine 5. Vice president of engineering Nick Penwarden said, "I can say that the GPU time spent rendering geometry in our UE5 demo is similar to the geometry rendering budget for Fortnite running at 60fps on consoles." Let's give ourselves a moment for that to sink in.
That amazing UE5 tech demo was only as GPU-intensive as Fortnite
And this is seriously good news for the future of gaming performance
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