Madfinger Games has published a heatmap showing how much of a difference the new Unreal Engine 5 version makes.

TL;DR: Unreal Engine 5 revolutionized game development with advanced technologies like Lumen and Nanite, but many UE5-powered games in 2025 face performance and optimization issues across platforms.

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, has stated his belief that Unreal Engine 5‘s poor performance on select hardware is down to developers not properly optimising the technology. Korean website This Is ...

Unreal Engine 5 has been catching heat for performance issues on lower-end hardware, but Epic CEO Tim Sweeney isn’t having it. According to him, the engine’s not the bottleneck—developers are. And if ...

Epic Games has been showing off its latest Unreal 5.6 game engine. While it's full of technical innovations and new graphical and physics features, the main takeaway is that the latest version of ...

It's the massive, Godzilla-sized elephant in the room — Unreal Engine 5. Apparently the end all be all for nearly every AAA game in the space today, Unreal Engine 5 came to us in 2020 as a savior with ...