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Unreal Engine 5 shows ultra-realistic graphics on PS5

Epic Games recently announced what should be the main engine for the next video game generation. Bill U It was shown with impressive graphic quality, with thousands of details in the textures of the objectives and dynamic lighting that adds realism to the objects. ultra-realistic graphics.

The revelation highlighted the two main characteristics of the game engine, using a video demonstration of a game running on the PlayStation 5, since the Xbox Series processes two to three teraflops more than the Sony console, so will have better performance in video games developed for the Microsoft console.

The first big difference with U, widely used by various developers since 2014, is the tool Lumen, a fully dynamic global lighting solution capable of reacting immediately to changes in the environment and light. The second is Nanite, a virtualized micropolygon geometry that allows artists to create details of tens to hundreds of billions of triangles and hexagons.

Unreal Engine 5 is designed so that titles developed with Unreal Engine 4 can be updated with the new generation and it should work for as many current consoles as PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, as well as Windows 10, Mac, iOS and Android PC.

Demo performance on PS5 leaves a little to be desired

For now, the only thing that was disappointing was that the PS5 demo It only supported 30 frames per second, without the presence of the imaging technology Three-dimensional Ray-Tracing and with a performance of only 1440p. The vice president of Epic Games, Nick Penwarden, admitted that the software works with lower performance than expected for the next generation, however, highlighted its solution with dynamic resolution.

“Interestingly, it also works very well with our dynamic resolution technique. So when the GPU load is high, we can lower the screen resolution a little bit and then we can adapt to it. In the demonstration, we actually use a dynamic resolution, although it renders in 1440p most of the time," he explained.

Unreal Engine 5 could be officially presented in early 2021However, the complete engine Epic Games expects to be released late next year.