The full reveal trailer for The Witcher 4 began with the notice that it was “pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on an unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU.” Now that Nvidia has lifted the veil on its incredibly expensive RTX 5090, the GPU maker has confirmed that the Witcher 4 trailer was made with the $2,000 GPU.
“The long-awaited sequel, The Witcher IV, recently debuted with a stunning reveal trailer, which we can now confirm was pre-rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on a GeForce RTX 5090,” Nvidia confirms in a news post. “NVIDIA has been working with CD PROJEKT RED since the beginning of the game's development, and once it is ready for release, The Witcher IV will launch with the latest RTX technologies.”
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Nvidia is, of course, being pretty vague about the technical details of this “pre-rendered” video on a very expensive (but technically consumer-grade) GPU. The involvement of Nvidia and the developers. seems It's possible that The Witcher 4 looked as good as it did in the reveal trailer running on a 5090, but the fact that everything was pre-rendered makes that implication effectively meaningless. Until both the game and the graphics card are in our hands it is impossible to guess how realistic that projection could be.
CD Projekt Red has gone on record saying that the trailer was “powered by the same technology that The Witcher 4 is being built on” and that it is “a cinematic look at the type of experience The Witcher 4 aspires to deliver.” players.” Which means it's bound to be a great game. The only question is what kind of hardware we'll need to run it.
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