Unreal Engine 5 demo out now on Epic Games store

[Nyt Ryda]

A very early taste of next gen is out for those with enough hardware.

You can download Unreal Engine 5 and the project file for the demo from the Epic Games launcher, just look for the stuff in the UE5 tab.

Download is like 22Gb for UE5 and 100Gb for the Valley of the Ancient project file.
Requirements are GTX1080 and 32Gb RAM minimum, and 12 core/RTX2080/64Gb RAM/8Gb VRAM recommended for 30FPS.

I tried the demo.
- 8-core 9900K was around 30% usage when playing.
- 26Gb RAM used but it's probably because DirectStorage isn't on PC yet.
- 7Gb VRAM of my 3080 was used at 1440p.
- Ran relatively okay at around 40-60FPS, minor hitching but nothing major. Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVME used.


Still early days and it sounds like the engine only getting fully released to the devs next year.
Overall it's quite exciting to see what is in store for us in a couple years.

 

[Switch]

7Gb VRAM of my 3080 was used at 1440p.

If optimizations doesn't reduce this, all those 8gb and below vram cards are looking to becoming obsolete really quickly for the high resolution crowd.

 

[Nyt Ryda]

If optimizations doesn't reduce this, all those 8gb and below vram cards are looking to becoming obsolete really quickly for the high resolution crowd.

Things like DLSS or temporal upscaling, higher RAM requirements and SSD requirements will help. And DirectStorage will help immensely by being to shift things between the VRAM and NVME quickly.

But most games will be PC, PS5 and Series X/S.

And the Series S only has 8Gb of "VRAM" with the other 2Gb system memory being similar to DDR4 bandwidth.

So you should be good with 8Gb for a couple years at 1440p and below. The next gen ADA cards will probably be 12 and 16Gb for the x70 and x80 and more suitable for intensive RT and 4K.

 

[Toy Machine]

My balls got to 100% capacity when I saw this announcement this morning. sad that I sold my PC and now I can't mess around in it as I was learning UE4 xD my sack shall remain at full capacity until such a time that one can tinker again

On the real though I am very very excited to see this develop within the community.