In addition to the impressive DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction implementation within Cyberpunk 2077, NVIDIA also gave us a chance to try out its new Ramen Shop tech demo based on Unreal Engine 5 and it was just spectacular.
NVIDIA Pushes Unreal Engine 5's Ray Tracing Capabilities Ahead With DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction In New Ramen Shop Tech Demo
If you didn't know it already, Unreal Engine 5 has added support for DLSS 3.5 which means that game developers can take advantage of various features such as AI Super Sampling, Frame Generation, and Ray Reconstruction within their Unreal Engine 5 applications. This allows them to give a visual and performance advantage over the native output.
To demonstrate this aspect of its technology, NVIDIA has rolled out a new Ramen Shop tech demo which makes use of various ray-traced effects such as RTX Direct Illumination, Lumen Global Illumination, Lumen Reflections, and DLSS 3.5's Ray Reconstruction technology. The tech demo is outfitted with cinematic quality 8K textures and features higher sampling rates for hardware ray-traced Global Illumination. In terms of visual quality, the whole tech demo looks photo-realistic & incredible.
Also a fun fact, this demo is based on a previous version that was used to demonstrate NVIDIA's Omniverse over a year ago.
Ramen Shop (UE5) Tech Demo With Ray Reconstruction:
Ramen Shop (UE5) Tech Demo Without Ray Reconstruction:
The demo weighs in around 10 GB and the best part is that it comes with a menu through which you can toggle various aspects such as Frame Generation, Super Resolution modes, and the Ray Reconstruction technology. We dished out our NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition GPU to test it within the tech demo and were blown away by what we saw.
Ramen Shop (UE5) Tech Demo With Ray Reconstruction:
Ramen Shop (UE5) Tech Demo Without Ray Reconstruction:
First up, we have to talk about the visuals and we can confidently say that NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 and its Ray Reconstruction technology just destroys the standard Ray Tracing and denoiser-based render. Shimmering can be seen present on various tiles and metallic surfaces throughout the demo & lightning is further assisted. Furthermore, each shiny surface just looks way better.
Ramen Shop (UE5) Tech Demo With Ray Reconstruction:
Ramen Shop (UE5) Tech Demo Without Ray Reconstruction:
There are even boiled eggs lying in a few ramen bowls which reflect light properly and look lifelike. These are the most realistic eggs ever in a tech demo!
Kinda reminds me of the tessellated toad featured in Crysis 3.
In terms of performance, we saw up to 16% better performance with Ray Reconstruction enabled in DLSS 3.5 and an average uplift of 12% compared to the non-RR mode. This is a big boost when considering that you're also getting far better image quality than what you had previously. And this is just the beginning with newer DLSS models further refining Ray Reconstruction & bringing more performance to the table.
Ramen Shop (UE5) Tech Demo With Ray Reconstruction:
Ramen Shop (UE5) Tech Demo Without Ray Reconstruction:
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