Cinema-Quality Unity Engine 'Adam' Demo Claims To Run Real-Time On GeForce GTX 980 (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: This week at GDC 2016 the team at Unity revealed their stable release of the Unity 5.3.4 game engine along with a beta of Unity 5.4. There are a number of upgrades included with Unity 5.4 including in-editor artist workflow improvements, VR rendering pipeline optimizations, improved multithreaded rendering, customizable particles which can use Light Probe Proxy Volumes (LPPV) to add more realistic lighting models and the ability to drop in textures from tools like Quixel DDo Painter. But for a jaw-dropping look at what's possible with the Unity 5.4 engine, check out the short film "Adam" that Unity has developed to demo it. The film showcases all of Unity Engine 5.4's effects and gives a great look at what to expect from Unity-based games coming in 2016. Unity will showcase the full film at Unite Europe 2016 in Amsterdam. But what's most impressive about Adam perhaps is that Unity says that this is all being run in real-time at 1440p resolution on just an upper-midrange GeForce GTX 980 card.

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GTX 980 is not "upper midrange"

[Cowclops]

The GTX 980 is not an upper midrange card. Its $500 and about the only thing faster is a GTX 980 TI. I know it sounds like a big deal for it to run well on a so-called midrange card, but if they wanted to do that they'd need to try it out on a GTX 950 or 960.

If I were the dictator of "video card performance nomenclature," it would be more like this:

GTX 950 - Midrange
GTX 960 - Upper Midrange
GTX 970 - Entry level High End
GTX 980 - High End
GTX 980ti - Cost No Object.

If a video card costs about what the average person spends on a whole computer these days, the phrase "midrange" does not get to be associated with it.

Re:This is pretty impressive

[Junta]

Though the engines are capable, it still takes a great deal of work to actually bring out those capabilitiies. You still need laborious modeling and texturing work if you want something 'AAA' and can't just assemble things out of stock content from the asset stores.

Titles developed on a budget have not come remotely close to the aspirational demos of the engines they have used to date, and I wouldn't expect that to change anytime soon.