Unreal Engine 5 vs UE 4 - Soul Cave

Unreal Engine 5 vs Unreal Engine 4.26
Soul: Cave demo from marketplace

Both rendered with the same PC using a single 2080ti and with exactly same settings in the render queue.

00:00 - UE5 Render
00:43 - Direct Comparison

[mohsenRD]

With this new level of awesomeness those who think ue4 is better, well I gotta tell you, it seems like there's something seriously wrong with your eyes, also make sure you upgrade them before entering the ue5 world ;)

[DailyConscious]

In this static walkthrough, UE4 seems better looking to me. Yeah I know that Lumen's lighting will be more realistic with characters in the scene but yeah..yeah

[zerocoool]

real time over baked gives you so much more control. even if the quality is a little lower. Ill take realtime.

[TimmyTurner]

Hmm don't know man. They both look good but different

[krayziez]

wait what? UE 4 looks way better. no idea what this is about.

[SteviesCornerYouTubeChannel]

Base on your demo, I must say, generally, UE5 look a bit better in some aspects, on others it make the scene completely washed out, colorless. A perfect example is at 1:21. The materials, reflections, etc look awful. Realtime isn't useful if the scene look ugly. It seem you change the light source colors too because even the original look better than that on both of my pc's. I made some UT4 maps base on Soul assets and the original Soul : cave scene as way more colors and contrast than your presentation. Brief, your demo doesn't sell UE5 for me at all.

[Blaccastro]

Unreal engine 5 really took it to a whole new level

[Kinos]

UE4 looks better. The UE5 scene looks muddled. What is this, cryengine?

[Rumble-Tusk]

Imagine trying to do a ue5 comparison without even using nanite.
Soul Cave is a ue4 map. Why don't you compare Valley of the Ancients on UE4 and UE5? Make that video. You won't, nerd.