Cyberpunk 2077 preview benchmarks: The New GPU Executioner has arrived

For starters, something everyone can run.

[Update] These are the numbers with the patch apparently.

1060 is barely good enough for 1080p/30.

Seems you need 2070S+ for 60fps at 1440p.

4K is out of reach for most GPU's. The 3080 barely averages it but its low are way below that. Anything weaker gets crushed.

RTU is Ray Tracing Ultra. As you can see, the 3090 barely manages to have Ultra settings across the board and maintain 60fps, and that's just at 1080p. The 3080 can't do it. Also of note that it seems we are running into a CPU bottleneck. 3080 at Ultra/1080p averages 102.8 with 67.6 lows but only 105.4 and 67.3 at Medium.

For the tl;dr DLSSQ is Quality, DLSSB is Balanced, DLSSP is Performance, DLSS UP is Ultra Performance. No word on how they look compared to native res. Do remember, Ultra Performance renders at a res that is 8x below the target one. So 4K Ultra performance renders at 720p internally.

1440p Ultra seems to require at minimum a 6800 which is not on this chart. A highly OC'd 2080 Ti or 3070 might get you there as well. Do note the minimums however. Only the RTX 3080 and above stick to 60fps at all times. RTM stands for Ray Tracing Medium.

Even the mighty 3090 doesn't quite cut it at 1440p Ultra and RT Medium. Needs a bit of DLSS help. The good news is, even cranked up to RT Ultra, it manages to average over 60fps with respectable lows of 53.5 The 3080 falls just short.

A drop of 21fps from Ultra to Medium at 4K for the 3090. 6800XT is the bare minimum for playable frame rates at 4K Ultra on AMD's side. Notably, the 3080 beats it by 20%.

Full article can be read here as it's way too long to summarize it all.

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oof

my 1080 be sweatin

seems like the requirements were not accurate

I just want 1440p/60 with some form of raytracing. The 2080Ti isn’t in those benchmarks, but 60 doesn’t look likely... sigh

Looks like i'm going 4K/DLSS/High and hoping I can decently maintain 60.

1080p for the win. Despite all the hype for 4K,1080p continues to be the most playable resolution (for obvious reasons). Time to spend more resources on uprezing tech instead of wasting resources at brute forcing higher resolutions.

Hope that day 1 patch can improve things.

Damn, too bad 1080P looks like asscheeks on my 1440P monitor. May have to look into some kinda uprezing technique more. I'm rocking my 1080TI at least until next year.

Damn CDPR were lying through their teeth with their PC requirements. I thought my RTX 3070/3900X would be good for 1440P/60/RT medium-high. Can't imagine what sort of PS5/XSX patch can do if the game is this demanding at high res and ray-tracing.

@nfamouslegend: There's going to be a patch and new drivers before release according to the article. So hopefully performance is more in line with the spec sheet once those are out.

Going by these metrics the VCR and PS4 Amateur will be 900p/720p lower than low if they are lucky with framerates between 20-30 fps. Gtx 1060 only averages 37fps at medium settings while being much more powerful than the base last gen systems.

Uh..oh. Should I wait for 3080 or wait even more for Ti...! Decisions decisions.

Glad I got my upgrade completed in time. Will be able to Max it out with RT and be above 60 which was the goal.

Not a good showing for the 6800 cards.

AMD really shitting the bed not having a DLSS equivalent. For essentially no loss of fidelity you can play in the quality mode for near a 100% increase in framerate. Like how can they possibly hope to compete with that on flat card performance?

*looks at my 1060 6gb*

yuuuuup.

ermagerd. This thing is going to destroy m 2070 Super.

Thank god for adaptivesync because my frames are going to be dancing around like ProtossRush on what his favorite platform is

So, I was right for calling out the requirements/recommendations for not listing a frame rate. I also predicted that the game would be a buggy mess and that RT wasn't really going to be viable in the game at respectable resolutions and frame rates.

Best to hold off on this game until some patches at least fix most of the bugs.

"Can it run Cyberpunk 2077" all over again.

I'm going to bleed the hell out of my RTX 2070 but at least I'm aiming for 1440p as it's my default resolution.

Tech Jesus says hold your horses.

@fedor: that's encouraging news

I'm starting to think I should wait for the RTX 4000 series especially with how long they're making me wait for RTX 3000 cards to get back in stock.

indeed. there may be hope yet.

could be new drivers by then as well

I think Denuvo is limiting performance from what i've read.

I was going to buy this straight away as a 'no brainer'. Now I await the DF verdict.

4K RT for me

Good luck with that. LOL

On your 6800XT?

I wish I could afford to do that but I was holding out on an upgrade for a long time. 4000 series won't come for another 1.5 years at least.

xbox one x here....1080/60 and 1400-1800/30 modes will do me

@bluestars: One X is apparently 1080p/30. No confirmation yet though.

Updated OP. New numbers are 8-15% better.

So I need DLSS to break 30fps at 1440p with a 2080Ti... Nvidia, PLEASE let me buy a new GPU!

I will most likely be playing at 3440x1440 with DLSS Quality, some settings dropped and no RT. I need a high frame rate. Especially for a first person game. The graphics don't mean shit if the game is not running well.

@Juub1990: figures. I didn't think denuvo was gonna be the cure on this

I'll be playing it on PS5. No need for overpriced PC's that will struggle because of poor optimization and being an afterthought.

The PS5 doesn't even have a next-gen patch until next year...

Your trolling is so shit. You will be playing at last gen settings and 30fps until there is a next-gen patch. That is pathetic.

I was expecting 1440p 60FPS with all bells and whistles on with the RTX 3080. I wonder how much of difference there is between RT on High and Ultra.

@NoodleFighter: that's exactly what you will get on average as per the updated OP. Probably be worth turning down the usual suspects for nice boosts though.

Often very high to ultra has negligible differences for good boosts.

@netracing: I know that is what I'll get with a RTX 3080. I am perfectly fine with 1440p 60FPS if it means I get to play it on the highest graphical qualities. This game is using 4 different types of ray tracing so it is going to slaughter even the RTX 3090 in performance. If some graphical settings don't look that much different from each other while stilll having a big performance difference I will definitely turn them down. I'm already thinking of putting RT shadows on just high because RT shadows is the weakest type of RT in making a big visual difference in my opinion.

But I need to get myself a RTX 3080 before I even think about what I am going to do and it seems I won't be getting one until a month or two into 2021.

True I don't think I can hold out that long either. My GTX 1080 is really starting to show its age in newer titles, even the RTX 3060 Ti has already shown itself to be a worthy upgrade over the 1080 Ti.

Is that the best you can come up with? You just don't even try anymore, like what happened?

Not bad. I'll try to report back how my good old 2070 fairs.