Looks beautiful and can't wait to see what kind of stuff they'll be able to do next-gen. Here's the video embedded for anyone who wants to watch it.
Thanks.
So was that rendered in real time or pre-rendered?
I hope next gen will look that good.
It was all real-time rendering which makes that tech demo even more jaw dropping. Epic proved it by pausing it moving the camera around freely, turning off things like shaders and stuff in real time to show the differences with it on and off and other stuff like that. Needless to say if games look this incredible while I'm playing them next-gen i will be MORE than happy because there hasn't ever been a game released with this level of graphics in game before FOR SURE.
That tech demo was running on three GTX 580 cards. Next gen consoles will not have anywere close that much power.
I read in neogaf that they say that Epic believes they can get the same tech demo runing on a single GTX 580 if they optimized it.
This demo was probably run at a very high res, like 2560x1600 or even higher... consoles will probably use something like 1920x1080 or lower... so they'd need something less powerfull than a GTX 580 to run this... And next gen will probably arrive in 2012-first half of 2013 so there'll be better video cards with less power consumption by that time.
I'd say next gen consoles will use something between an HD 6870 and an HD 6950 and they'll be able to run this (at a lower res) with little heat and low power consumption.
No, it's going to be much more powerful than that.
Back in Nov 2005 Microsoft came out with with a console which had a GPU almost 80% as fast as Nvidias 7800GTX which was released only 5 months before it (in June the same year).
The 6950 is already 3 months old and not even the most powerful GPU out there, and next console gen is still far away.
I see... maybe you're right... I really hope they're more powerful than that but they'll need to bring power consumption and heat down a lot and use a nice cooling system because if they don't it could end worse than the RRoD. I just don't see that happening today... but it'll probably be different in 2 years.
I hope they use something more powerful than the GTX 580 and a 6 cores CPU/GPU hybrid :P... imagine that at just 300/400 dollars, it'd be like a dream for the consumers... let's just hope prices go down by the time they're released or companies will have to take huge losses again.
I think we'll start hearing rumours of next gen consoles next year... It'd be awesome if they showed new consoles at E3 2012 :P
Lol, Versus XIII will probably be released AFTER next gen starts xD
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