Fortnite on PS5 Pro: Epic deploys dramatically improved, hardware-accelerated ray tracing
Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro is the most capable console money can buy right now, so it’s only right that we should see Epic’s Fortnite receive a substantial upgrade. The Pro’s extra rasterisation performance is put to good use in delivering higher resolutions up against the standard model, but that’s not really the game-changing difference. Instead, Epic deploys its higher end hardware ray tracing features to the 60fps mode of the game, offering a much improved level of global illumination and reflections – and it does so while maintaining its nigh-on flawless performance level. It’s also interesting to note that one of Sony’s ‘big three’ enhancements isn’t used. Epic prefers its own Temporal Super Resolution technology (TSR) instead of the Pro’s machine learning-based PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR).
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Source: Eurogamer.net
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