Epic announced a host of new features in their Unreal Engine 3 development platform today at this year's GDC, the biggest of which is support for DirectX 11 and its assorted tools. The problem is, for most people, these kind of announcements might as well be in Sanskrit -- they're full of tech jargon that goes right by the average gamer.
I've gone through in an attempt to translate what Epic means by Subsurface Scattering and Deferred Rendering. The bolded segments are features of the updated Unreal Engine 3 courtesy of Epic, followed by our explanation of what this means for games. Epic gave us the thumbs up for accuracy. Yay, us.
NowGamer: Nvidia launches the next-generation of GPUs to PC.
Nvidia took the crown by releasing a mid range gpu.Just think about how the real high end gk110 will perform?
Until they release a game that truly takes advantage of it, we remain firmly in this gen. I'm waiting.
NowGamer: Epic Games and Nvidia show off Samaritan running on a single gfx card amid heightened Unreal Engine 4 speculation.
I reckon this is a pretty good approximation of what the first batch of next-gen consoles will be capable of, but, if this gen is anything to go by, there will be a lot of optimization to happen.
Can't wait to see what games look like in 2020.
Well if you read the article the interesting thing is that the shots and render are in......720p.
Originally the realtime presentation was in 1080p.
This may be nothing but it is curious. It may simply be turned down because GK104 kepler is not as fast as GTX580 TRI SLI which is not a surprise.
It may not even be turned down, but MSAA is turned off because FXAA 3 saves something like 500mb of memory.
Or it may be turned down so they know an approximate of new consoles. Maybe we will know for sure in the coming months.
Yea!, this should be on Next-Gen xbox but Microsoft will never go back to NVIDIA cards for reason, I really hope they do cause the games looks way more better graphically on a Nvidia Geforce cards then a ATI radeon HD cards.
I didn't see a single difference in that video except some benchmarks were slightly different.
I don't think that would prevent people from buying their favorite name branded Gpu
I have been using Nvidia since 3dfx went under but I would still buy Amd based gpu's in a heartbeat. I f us/we as human beings realize what has become with today's PCs it is such an amazing feat. I can't believe how awesome my PC is alone compared to what I had 5-10 years ago. And now we are Moving into another era with Pcie 3.0, Ivy bridge I7's z77 motherboards and these new amazing Gpu's from Amd and Nvidia. They are both damn good.
I doubt next gen console with get Kepler GPU.
I guess we're talking GTX570/580 or even GTX680, which are expensive, too much for mass market consoles.
Maybe this kind of demo will run without AA and 30fps or something.
It probably won't get kepler because Nvidia seem to have no parts in the next gen consoles.
But that does not mean they will not be this powerful. They really aren't that expensive for mass market consoles. Last generation PS3 was very expensive to manufacture. I am sure a new gen will be cheaper, if only because bluray itself is far cheaper and common now too which was a large cost of the machine over its rivals.
The word is AMD are preparing a large chip, with a bunch of stacked memory on it. It'll be pricy, but as with anything on silicon it can only ever get cheaper as the years pass and the process shrinks come down.
It is still probably best that you push the envelope with what you can do with current processors, because you know that the price of manufacturing it always drops steeply within 3 years thanks to die shrinks.
Aren't they supposed to be priced at 299? Microsoft makes a processor similar to PC, and Sony simplifies the one in the PS3 and makes it more powerful at the same time.
Blu-ray and RAM is cheap now, and backwards compatibility will be an added accessory if they are smart and want the extra money.
Toss in the 300 dollar card, which will be cheaper since they are mass marketing it, and you will come in at maybe 350 to 450 dollars to make it. Sell one version at 300, the other at 350, you lose money for the first year, but make it up with software sales.
Personally I don't think they will get these specific cards, since consoles are a bit different than PC, but they will get something extremely similar. I don't think the industry wants consoles jumping in already behind like they did this generation. Companies like DICE won't be happy at all.
I got 8 gigs of g skills for 40 bucks ddr 3 If these next consoles opt for less memory it would be silly.
I don't know if 8 gigs for a console will take place in a closed environment but what the hell the more the better to a certain degree.
New consoles should let you upgrade your console. The way I see this happening though is allowing only SONY formatted graphic cards and Xbox graphics cards for each console. But then there is room for too expensive graphic cards and watered down graphics from the start. Hmmm
Sigh.......... I would luv Sony's PS4's GPU would be either
GTX640(GK106)$139 =GTX550Ti
GTX650(GK106) $179 =GTX560
1.5-2GB GDDR5 VRAM
8GB GDDR3 system RAM (C.Skill RipjawsX series)
Then Sony's next gen system should hold it's own well into the year 2021.
They are that cheap? makes my above comment all the more justifiable...geez thats awesome lol
Wish I can say, But this is where I got the cost from, don't know if it's legit. 2nd row.
http://www.tomshardware.com...
CVG: Stunning tech showcase was built in just three months - but it's not a game.
Not surprising, they made a point of stating it's real-time running on UE3.
Biggest surprise: "but it was nice not to do a big space marine."
Epic's incredible Samaritan demo is playable... to an extent and the extent being that your PC has the following
SPECS:
Nodes Type Speed Cache1 Altix 4700 (512 cores) 1.6 GHz Montecito 9MB1 Altix 4700 (2048 cores) 1.6 GHz Montecito 9MB2 Altix 4700 (1024 cores) 1.6 GHz Montvale 9MB4 Total Compute Nodes (4.608 Total Cores)
System Architecture
Compute node cabinets * 40 * 30 teraflop / s theoretical peak (10.240 Original System – 63 Tflop / s)
Subsystems
* 2 front-end nodes
Memory
* Type – double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) * Per Processor (core) – 2GB * Total Memory – 9TB
Interconnects
* NUMALink interconnected single-system image compute nodes * Internodeo InfiniBand – 4x (Single Data Rate, Double Data Rate) o 10Gb Ethernet LAN / WAN interconnecto 1Gb Ethernet LAN / WAN interconnect
Storage
* Online – DataDirect Networks and LSI RAID, 1PB (raw) o 1 SGI CXFS SGI XFS Local domainso fileystems * Archival – Attached to the high-end computing SGI CXFS SAN file system
Operating Environment
* Operating system – SUSE Linux Enterprise * Job Scheduler – PBS * Compilers – Intel Fortran, C, SGI MPT
Game is running on Linux? WTF how come us Linux users never get ANY games lol
He's taking the p***. It would of been running on Windows 7. Only confirmed components are 3x GTX580.
This would make an EPIC game.
Has that Max Payne and Grand Theft vibe to it.
Why the disagress - you people need to stop being so uptight and laugh a little.
TwaS a joke people.
They should release it so I can run it! It would be a great benchmark! Next gen pc on linux please!
The thing is, while it looks amazing, that wouldn't be in-game if it was an actual game, it'd be an FMV.
No game on the Unreal engine looks that good. Not with all the pop-in, texture loading and other crap.
The texture pop in/loading is really only a problem for consoles. UE3 doesn't really have that issue on PCs...
FMV=Full motion video, meaning not real time. However, this is real time.
And texture pop-in is due to consoles and their limited memory, it is a way to get higher resolution textures. Happens in gears of war just like it does in killzone 3 and uncharted 2.
