Our dear friends over at VGLens have revealed two new tech demos for Square Enix’s Agni’s Technology. These demos show off two of the trailer’s characters, in which the developers adjust various characteristics on the fly. The level of detail is simply mind-blowing and it is no stretch to say that Agni’s Technology features the most detailed characters we’ve ever seen. So yes, we highly recommend taking a look at the following videos and let’s hope that Square Enix will reveal more news about the game that will be based on what we’ve seen so far on this tech demo.

Remember back in June when we said that the Agni’s Tech Demo was running on a single GTX680? Naturally, a lot of our users didn’t believe those claims. Well, here we are today with the full specs of the PC system that was running this tech demo.

According to Japanese websites GameWatch and 4Gamer, Agni’s Philosophy was running on a single GTX 680 that was paired with an i7-3770K (at 3.5GHz) and 32 GB of RAM. As the website suggests, this tech demo did not stress the aforementioned machine much, meaning that such graphics can be easily achieved by high-end PC systems. The tech demo used 1.8GB of texture data and was said to be running with a combination of MSAA and FXAA.

What’s also interesting is that, according to the 4Gamer article, the entire city was tessellated. We’ve been saying that tessellation would be a great technique that could potentially replace LOD settings and eliminate pop-ups, and it seems we were right. Moreover, and by using this technique, Agni’s Philosophy pushed scenes with 10 million polygons. Kudos to Square Enix for doing so.

Last but not least, the tech demo was running at 60fps – on that PC system that was described above – and not at 30fps. Impressive, right?

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I'm not a big "graphix" guy but that's bloody amazing. The hair and the facial realism are astounding. This makes me kind of excited.

32 GB of RAM?!?!?!

Well that confirms next gen consoles wont be running this......at least not at this level of detail

Looks like we'll easily be getting that quality on the Sonysoft systems. Great! :)

Consoles need way less RAM. Most modern PC games need 2-4GB to run, yet consoles play most of them with 512mb, and with optimization that requirement will go way down. 4GB and we will see similar quality, 8GB and they'll easily match that quality. 

Oh, also just read: "this tech demo did not stress the aforementioned machine much", so I doubt 32GB was neccessary. 

How does the GTX 680 and i7 @ 3.5 GHz fall into the Xbox 3 and PS4 rumored specs?

No one said that the tech demo was using that much.

Considering that there is barely a game that needs more than 4GB of Ram (not including Windows) pretty much confirms that the RAM of next gen consoles will be enough for it.

Obviously that is not necessarily true for CPU and especially GPU.

It doesn't mean it actually required that much RAM, it's just how much the machine had since Ivy Bridge takes 32GB of RAM on most setups, for example, my setup in my sig.

The 680 is more powerful than the rumoured (I think likely) PS4 GPU, but it's not a large leap, and consoles can achieve more with less... so it should produce similar results. I'm basing that judgement on assuming the PS4's GPU will be based on the 7870, or the APU's GPU + 7770

So who else wants to fight me on the fact that consoles have been holding graphics back hard since that demo didn't even tax a single 680? :P