Matrix Awakens Unreal Engine 5.4 vs Unreal Engine 5.0 - The Ultimate Graphics/Performance Comparison

Extremely Impressive!! 👏🏻👏🏻 Can't wait to see all games use UE5! ❤

There will always be an idiot who will say that "the older is better", did this guy show up yet? 🤣🤣

The difference is that cars are made of mirrors now.

Idgaf about FG and avg framerate improvements if the stuttering is never addressed

Looks great, but can't download :(

I want to see a fully fledged Matrix game

You really need to upgrade your cpu dude, the 4080 can achieve more fps with an i5 12600K instead of that old i7 10th gen

Could you re-upload to a different host? Google link has reached max downloads.

Its running a pretty solid 70fps Native 4k on my 14700k/RTX 4090, Epic Settings with Hardware Lumen on.

add file to mega pls =(

The video shows how badly optimized the Unreal Engine is, they have patched it broken. This is what happens when you put everything into your engine without optimizing it, it will probably take years until they have fixed all the bugs. By then many Unreal Engine users will have switched to other engines.

Important note to everyone reading this comment: This is running at Cinematics quality level, which is never used in game since it's for engine renders, that's why it is hidden from the settings in all UE5 games. So the performances are really worst than it shoud be. An RTX 4090 could almost run this at native 4K60FPS with Ray Tracing I think but still with some stuttering when streaming objects, but only with Epic settings, not Cinematics.
For comparison: PS5 runs at 4K60FPS at high settings with TSR at 50%.

I recognize cyberpunk music when I hear it ;)

Hi! First of all, thank you for using my project; I'm happy to see that it's getting some visibility! :)

Secondly, I’m not sure the comparison was entirely fair. You used the Cinematic graphics preset for UE5.4, but unless you manually set that same preset in the 5.0 version, you were comparing the Epic preset in 5.0 to the Cinematic preset in 5.4. The Cinematic preset is intended for in-engine renders or cinematics, which severely impacts performance and isn’t typically used for real-time gameplay, that’s why most games don’t include this preset in their graphics settings.
So it’s not representative of the real performances of Unreal Engine 5 games. I included it in the menu because I wanted to expose all options, but in this case, the Epic preset would have been more appropriate—unless, of course, you manually set Cinematic preset in the 5.0 version as well, like I mentioned.

If I remember correctly, at 1440p with DLSS Quality and Lumen HWRT, I was getting around 45-50 FPS with my RTX 4070 Super + Ryzen 7 5800X, so you should get way more than that with your PC.

Thirdly, to respond to those comparing these performance results with the PS5 and suggesting Unreal isn’t optimized for PC: the PS5 runs at high settings without HWRT Lumen. Here, however, the game is running at Cinematic settings with HWRT. To recap: High settings = 4K60FPS on console with TSR at 50%, Epic settings = 4K60FPS on a desktop PC with TSR at 50%, both without HWRT Lumen. You need a pretty high-end PC to run HWRT Lumen with decent performances on the CitySample (even tho the performances of Hardware Ray Tracing have really been improved since 5.0, and even more in Unreal Engine 5.5)

Finally, I need to update it because it’s a little outdated. It doesn’t use the latest version of my menu, and it’s running on Unreal Engine 5.4.1, if I remember correctly. We now have Unreal Engine 5.4.4, and the plugins are a little bit outdated too (like the DLSS plugin that is the first 3.7 version, not 3.7.20, since I packaged it in June)—there are new versions of each plugin, and the FSR 3.1 plugin has been released for Unreal Engine 5.4. But I need to find where I put the project files in order to update it XD.

PS: The Google Drive link is down (too many downloads), I will send a new link when I come back home :)

Why did you not drive around that takes performance

Unfortunately, Matrix Awakens is an example of very bad code and materials workflow. If this demo was made by professionals, it would work at 60 fps on RTX2060

awesome

10700 with a 4080. jesus.

She got a lot of movement in those butt cheeks lol

Seeing improvements with my 7950X-3d the MSI 4090 is about the same but better frame times and sustained cpu speeds

Now do 5.5.

Super awesome comparison ! THX!!!

Main character is woke AF

Can someone who has already downloaded the demo please upload it on something other than google drive with their stupid quota exceeded crap please

It would've been nice if these features and optimizations were integrated into the engine to begin with, now you have to hope that devs update their games to the latest version.

thank you very much for this!

30fps 😂

It runs faster and looks better.

UE5 is a trash engine. i dont care how nice it CAN look if it runs like ass on the most expensive hardware you can get

Stutter Engine 5

It's like your girlfriend gets prettier every day but stays a toxic beast.

next 5 years we get Unreal Engine 5.8-6.0 and on RTX 7090 it will run in native 1440P on 45-60FPS... UE is clearly shit for gaming.
Either a game has been created on it that looks nice, but has high demands, or it runs smoothly even at 100FPS in native resolution, but looks like a game from 2015.
Unreal Engine 5 should never have come to the gaming scene... The engine is always stuttering.
Nvidia Shadowplay has a forever problem with it that it stops uploading.
And above all, the engine is dependent on DLSS 2+3 even on the 4080 to get a reasonable FPS even in 1440P, which is simply unacceptable.
This can make the game look more realistic, but if it doesn't run at 1440P or all the way to 1080P at 60-80FPS without DLSS and FSR on the latest and expensive graphics that are built for 4K, then that's just wrong.
I've been playing for more than 15 years and I just haven't been captivated by the Unreal Engine... When I started Crysis 3 on a Pentium G2020 and GTX 650 in 2013, I was more than done with the graphics and even years later and still today I'm surprised by how the game looks.

If GTA 6 looks remotely close to this I’m gonna be grateful

Hermano tengo ruido y algunos artifacs en la imagen, no se ve como en tu video; rtx 3060 i5 12400f 1080p. Averiguate lo de DLSS RR porfavor, para ver si hay mejoría en la imagen

Matrix awakens is playable? I mean the tech demo, you can set it and run it? Where do I get it?

too dark shadows in 5.4, 3.55 - head totally dark, where is global illumination

But Unreal Engine 5.5 is now

i dont know if i would like a game that looks this real since i would instinctively try to go to work in it.

AWESOME. 😃😃😃 Did you made build yourself from UE? How did you make all the menus? Is 16GB RAM enough for developers? - I had crashes running UE developer suit with demo on 16 GB RAM

Looks like shit, runs like shit. Typical post 2016 games xDD

Guys. Wukong was a first step in the right direction but it wasn't a smooth experience on any hardware. Y'all being disingenuous.

we are doomed with graphics over performance.

i7 10700F seems a bit weak for a 4080

fak unreal engine 5 its faking games and thats it i missed the old unreal engines

Unreal Engine ? Expect stutter fest after an hour of gameplay no matter the system.

Idk why, but even this 5,4 build have worse cpu performance than this: watch?v=E-KFjYu637k&t=179s this build (on 5.1 preview) is slightly optimized by Xenthorx (dl is there in the pinned comment) and on 10700f and 3080 at 1440p im getting 55-80 fps with dlss. So cpu performance is way better there. And yes, there's hardware lumen. Idk what changes he did there (i asked him, and he dont remember correctly).

Great video, the progress of the engine is amazing!

I know the link is in the description, but where did you even find this 5.4 version? Can you leave a link to that site

Does it have HDR? It will be more realistic if it has