Unreal Engine 5 demo ran at 1440p at 30fps - Sweeney praises PS5 storage system

Posted on Thursday, May 14 2020 @ 10:57 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Yesterday, we saw a video of the impressive Unreal Engine 5 tech demo running in real-time on the PlayStation 5 console. Now we have a bit more information from various sources. First up, there are some details about the resolution and framerate. It's reported that the demo ran at 30fps and used dynamic resolution. Eurogamer writes the demo primarily ran at 1440p:
And that, in a nutshell, is the definition of a micro-polygon engine. The cost in terms of GPU resources is likely to be very high, but with next-gen, there's the horsepower to pull it off and the advantages are self-evident. Rendering one triangle per pixel essentially means that performance scales closely with resolution. "Interestingly, it does work very well with our dynamic resolution technique as well," adds Penwarden. "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."
TweakTown reports Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney is very impressed by the technical capabilities of the PS5. He said it's far ahead of current state-of-the-art gaming PCs. In particular, the storage system receives a lot of praise. Sony's PS5 features a 5.5GB/s PCIe 4.0 SSD with a 12-channel memory controller and a hardware-based decompression block integrated right into the I/O.
"Unreal Engine 5 is really a generational leap or more in technological capabilities. The hardware that Sony is absolutely phenomenal. Not only an unprecedented amount of graphics power but also a completely new storage architecture that blows most past architectures out of the water and is far ahead of even the state-of-the-art highest-end PCs you can buy," Sweeney said on a Summer Games Fest stream.
The Unreal Engine 5 game engine will be out in 2021.



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