Epic games has revealed the computation requirements to run the Samaritan demo at 720p and 1080p, and it looks like it just could be possible to run it in real-time next gen.

The info was revealed via Tim Sweeney’s DICE presentation and we have the complete video for you below courtesy of Gamespot.

The interesting thing to come out of this was the requirements, obviously. Doom in 1993 just required 10 MFLOPS, while the Samaritan demo @ 1080p requires 2.5 TFLOPS. Unfortunately the current consoles are way behind the curve with Xbox 360 at 0.25 TFLOPS.

You can check out the 30-min recorded footage here:

Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney said to IGN that Unreal Engine 4 will probably arrive in 2014. The company is researching the next gen consoles. This also gives a clue as to when the next gen consoles will launch.

“This is technology that won’t see the light of day until probably around 2014,” he said, “but focusing on that horizon enables me to do some really cool things that just aren’t practical today, but soon will be,” he said to IGN.

“Some of our most productive work in the industry was on the first Unreal engine back in 1996, when I wrote a software vendor with a bunch of new features that hadn’t been seen before.

“I feel like that’s what I’m doing now on Unreal Engine 4 in exploring areas of the technology nobody else is really yet contemplating because they’re still a few years away from practicality. But I see a huge amount of potential there and so it’s very, very fun work.”

There is a few more life left in this gen as shown by the recent Epic game, Gears of Wars 3. We can only imagine how the tech will be next-gen. Tell us what you think in the comments section below.