Cyberpunk 2077 Graphics Optimization Guide, Performance Benchmarks, & Comparisons

Here's the best optimization: buy a 3080, use dlss.

Well. The video was actually shorter than expected

CDPR will optimize the game with updates by a lot, just wait for it. With 1.4 update on Witcher 3, they had increased performance by 30%.

Great video! So I have a gtx 1060 6 gig with a intel 10400 non k with 32 gigs of ripjaw 2666 and it runs cyberpunk at 1080p with high settings around a constant 60 fps although I did turn down shadows volumetric clouds and I turned off all the normal stuff like lens flare ambient occlusion ect ect but ya it runs great!

WAIT..... PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY PLAYING THIS BROKEN EMPTY GAME????? TAKES MORE THAN GOOD GRAPHICS TO HAVE AN ENJOYABLE GAMING EXPERIENCE.

A week.... so long 😒

Like out of all my life watching settings guides, playing games, etc, you actually gave me an understanding of what SSR is... wow I legit understand it now! lol

I neither have cyberpunk nor an RTX card.
why do always I watch this.

Being that this game is supposedly set in southern california weather settings shouldn't matter much, like clouds and what not. To be honest when I lived in that area there really wasn't any weather lol. There were no clouds for the most part, especially if you are above 2000 ft (think high desert to the north of LA). And it hardly ever rained, and when it did everything floods. If they wanted to make it real they should have added in smog and set everything on fire lol.

I always hated skid marks disappearing

Is rtx2060 max q with ryzen 7 4800hs is that good enough to run cyberpunk

Thank you Jesus!

Wake up samurai we have a card to melt

Thanks bro

CP2077 works perfectly fine on Intel 6700K and 1660 Super OC running 50FPS at HD resolution with practically all settings maxed out. Most of them are Ultra, and the rest are High.

no list of all settings, fuck you, now I have to watch the whole thing.

Dude fucking thank you, games need to do a better job of letting people know what specifically the settings are going to change

Such a horrible waste of time and effort. bro doesnt even give a concise view of optimised settings for quality and performance. this is what you call lack of common sense, the viewers arent game designers or game technicians, they are just enthusiast gamers looking for best settings to run their games at.

So why would anyone use SSR and AO with RT Shadows and Reflections? I see benchmarkers do this but I don't understand why.

I see no difference in the comparisons. Ray tracing on this game must be a trick to get the game to sell more.

you are the fucking man. Thank you

I have an i9 10900 with a 3080 and I have to make numerous sacrifices to get this game to run close to 60fps. Seems stupid to me that there won’t exist for several years yet a system that can run this game maxed out at 4k.

I like the RT stuff so I set that on but only on the medium setting and I reduce all shadows to medium and SSR and volumetric stuff to medium and at 4k I get mostly 60fps with occasional dips BUT only with the DLSS which basically means most of the time it’s nowhere near 4K really.

What a waste of effort. I wonder if I could even get 60fps at 1080 if I turned everything up to max.

Do you turn off screen space reflections if rt is on? Or do they both still operate

the legendary intro!

Thank you, you guys rock

think that is the first time I have actually understood some of the differences in the settings, lol
most of the time I can't see a bloody difference :)))

My vision is bad. I only focus with one eye. So setting most these off or low I would never see the difference. I want to run at 1440 ultrawide. My monitor can not do anything better than 60 hz. Have a ryzen 7 5800x rtx 3070.

So if you have RT reflections on, you can turn off ssr? I’m confused

thanks team

conclusion: this game is dogshit

Recommendations for textures taking too long to load in entirely?
I very often have to wait for a while when I arrive at a place before a door will even load in properly or before I can interact with anything, or an NPC will appear.
My PC should be pretty good... Though components are clearly underperforming and test below average (for that component, overall tests still call my PC a nuclear submarine or whatever)

I guess it took a while for GeForce Experience to realize I'd swapped cards. Moving from a 1070 Ti to a 3080 Ti at 1080p, it still suggested that ray tracing be disabled and that most of my settings be scaled down. But after a couple of reboots, it's now suggesting that I knock myself out. (I'm surprised it's not saying, "Only a 3 series? Get a real card and a new power supply!")

lmao there "there just weren't enough corpses"

Watched Edgerunner and started playing Cyberpunk.
I want to ask that, if I turned on Ray Tracing, can I turn Ambient Occlusion and Screen-Space Reflections off? They are similar, right?

Finally just picked up Cyberpunk and while a 3090 can handle it all on Ultra around 45 FPS, it's still pretty nuts in terms of the settings offered. Been a fun game so far!

Still love this video. Playing this game now again. FSR 2.1 is in thankfully.

It seems High RT shadows seems to darken the shadow when mixed with other shadows. As oppose to keeping the shadow the same darkness regardless of passing through or mixing with another shadow.

My GOD, Steve - you magnificent human, you!
The video intro just made me smile in the most simple and pure way, very much liked what you've done and thanks to Andrew! Glad to be watching your videos and you are my Go To channel for all things computer related.

Me, running Cyberpunk on a 1660 Ti:
This is fine. (It's not, please help)

Great job, still work, after "patchs"

How about just give us the settings to apply without all the bla bla

I decided I prefer to play with 144 FPS over having Ray-Tracing enabled and play with 35 FPS (and RT gives some weird visual bugs). That performance cost is absolutely insane and I have to make an effort to notice the difference.

Coming back to this 2 years later, wondering how much of this has stayed/changed, and what it means for the 40 series.

Well after two 2hrs trying to optimize... Let say that for the 6500XT it's simple , put every slider to the minimum, EVERYTHING, and you good for 30fps @ 1080p in 95% of situations. Still got some serious stutters and drop to the low 10th white action in heavy place. But it's playable at least One/ PS4 like experience

This is tremendous work! Gamers Nexus outstanding as always.

Thanks for this. super helpful