Epic Gives Samaritan Demo Processing Requirement

[Play4Fun]

kitler53 said:

Play4Fun said:
Forget what I said in the OP about next gen consoles. I got a little ahead of myself.

Also, lol at 12x - 16x jump next gen. Some of you people have completely unrealistic expectations.

wasn't the ps2 to ps3 about a 12x jump?  considering this gen is going to last longer then the last one a jump as big as the ps2 to 3 doesn't seem unreasonable to me.  so if not 12x was was the previous jump cause that's the number i'd approximently expect.

With the jump made by the PS3 and 360, they set the bar very high. Look at what they had to sacrifice for that. If you want a jump that large again , get acquainted with   expensive, large consoles that run  hot.

" This is what happened last time, so this is what will happen this time" isn't how it works.

Just look at the size, price and power consumptions of current high-end GPUs.

Indications point to next gen consoles being designed around efficiency and a tight power envelope.

 

We'd be lucky to get the equivalent of a GTx  580 in a 2013 console and that's a 1.5 teraflops GPU. The picture says it requires 2.5 TFLOPs to run Samaritan at 1080p 30fps which is almost two GTX 580s and means when Epic said it could be optimised to run on one GTX 580, they meant in 720p.

So, contrary to what I said in the OP, I don't expect any next gen consoles to run Samaritan at 1080p. I can see PS4 and 720 easily running it 720p and Wii U managing it at sub-HD with reduced effects.