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The Sport Awards served up some tasty reveal trailers at the present time simply previous, and the web is ablaze with dialogue surrounding the primary seems to be at a number of upcoming video games from some huge hitters. We have a complete record of all of the Sport Awards 2024 reveal trailers to your perusal, however I believe it is honest to say that none have brought about extra pleasure than our first (cinematic) take a look at The Witcher 4.
Eagle-eyed {hardware} lovers, nevertheless (and we’re most definitely they), could have seen that the trailer begins off with a line of explainer textual content, confirming that the trailer was “pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU”.
Properly then. That’d be a kind of mysterious 50-series graphics playing cards I reckon, though which one is unclear. The {hardware} neighborhood at giant (together with ourselves, natch) is anticipating the next-generation Nvidia playing cards to be revealed at CES 2025 in Las Vegas this coming January, and the hype is tangible because the anticipated date looms ever nearer.
At the moment we’re assuming the top-end RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are more likely to be revealed at this 12 months’s present, and probably the RTX 5070, too, if rumours are to be believed. Talking of rumours, the latest RTX 5090 leak has spoken in hushed tones of an immensely highly effective, 21,760-core, 600 W TGP monster—worthy of each ultra-demanding video games at 4K and the silver sword, I reckon.
All that being stated, pre-rendering a trailer on a brand new GPU… does not actually imply a lot. Technically, you might pre-render a spectacular trying trailer on a really sluggish card, as you have obtained on a regular basis on the earth to let it crunch out particular person frames at no matter pace it may handle, earlier than stitching all of them collectively in a 60 fps blaze for the eventual video. Therefore the entire “pre” little bit of “pre-rendering”.
Nonetheless, that is the primary trailer to my information to say an “unannounced GeForce GPU”, so it is obtained everybody speaking. Personally, I will reserve my pleasure for some real-time footage of one thing operating on a 50-series, or a gameplay reveal trailer for The Witcher 4. Which I’ve to say, seems to be fairly good even in cinematic kind, does not it?
A fast verify of my Steam account reveals I spent 182 comfortable hours in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and I am certain I will clock up one thing related within the new one. Hopefully I do not want an RTX 50-series card to run it, however being a significant Unreal Engine 5 launch, I am imagining it will most likely have some fairly hefty {hardware} necessities regardless. Dangle on, RX 7800 XT. You bought this, buddy.
