Cyberpunk 2077 DLSS/RT Efficiency (3600, 2060 Tremendous)

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Can You Run Ray Tracing on a Ryzen 5 3600 + RTX 2060 Tremendous? (8GB VRAM)

Revealed: February 16, 2021

Can it run Cyberpunk? You may little question be listening to these 4 phrases till no less than 2077. However is it actually that demanding of a title? Do you actually need a monster high-end PC to run the sport on excessive settings or with ray tracing enabled? Earlier than I kiss goodbye to my present system to construct an upgraded setup as soon as GPU availability improves (hopefully by Q2), I put my pretty mid-tier rig to the take a look at in opposition to all graphical presets of the notorious sport at each 1080p and 1440p. To not waste your time, the crux of the matter is that this: the DLSS 2.0 this sport helps is a real game-changer, and permits most mid-range graphics playing cards to run ray tracing in Cyberpunk with very playable body charges. DLSS can also be a should for high-end PCs when gaming at 4K, even you probably have probably the most highly effective GPU on the planet proper now (RTX 3090).

If you do not know what DLSS is, take a look at our Cyberpunk settings guide, however it’s basically a rendering characteristic discovered on NVidia RTX 20 and 30 collection playing cards that fairly considerably improves efficiency by ever-so-slightly reducing picture high quality (to the purpose the place most individuals would not discover the distinction, although it does rely upon which actual DLSS setting you utilize). And in Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing turned on, DLSS is virtually required for good efficiency – even with probably the most high-end GPUs accessible (if gaming at 4K decision). And with mid-range GPUs, as is the main target right here, DLSS additionally works its magic to make ray tracing fully inside attain.

On this benchmark I examined the sport on all presets, with and with out ray tracing, and with and with out DLSS, utilizing the uber widespread Ryzen 5 3600 processor, paired with 16GB of dual-channel 3200MHz RAM, and a MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Tremendous Ventus OC (with 8GB of VRAM). No overclocking of the CPU or GPU was concerned in these exams, and I extensively benchmarked a number of completely different areas of the sport for every particular person setting (one indoor space, one outside daytime space, and one outside nighttime space) to collect loads of FPS information with the intention to calculate the numbers you see under. When you have different mid-range GPUs just like the newer RTX 3060 Ti or older RTX 2070 Tremendous or RTX 2060, you are able to do some fundamental extrapolation of the numbers under to guesstimate roughly what kind of efficiency you’d get with these playing cards. Let’s get straight into the benchmarks.

Cyberpunk 1080p Benchmarks (All Settings)

Beginning with full HD and the 2060 Tremendous runs the sport with a flawless 60FPS or larger common on any of the bottom presets with out ray tracing. Allow these slick rays of sunshine although and a mid-range card like this struggles, even at 1080p, although a 39FPS common on the Ray Tracing Medium preset is greater than sufficient for a playable expertise for many avid gamers and appears unbelievable.

If you would like a smoother body fee of 45FPS or larger, which is the place you begin stepping into ultimate efficiency territory, it is DLSS to the rescue which considerably boosts FPS and permits for the final word Ray Tracing Extremely setting to run properly. The extra you crank up the DLSS setting, the upper your FPS, however on the expense of imager high quality/readability. As talked about in tweaking Cyberpunk graphics settings, DLSS works higher at larger resolutions and so for 1080p you ideally wish to keep on with the best high quality DLSS High quality setting to keep away from noticing a distinction within the graphics (however which nonetheless offers a big sufficient efficiency bump).

Cyberpunk 1440p Benchmarks (All Settings)

Shifting as much as 1440p decision and the RTX 2060 Tremendous is predictably dropped at its silicon knees with ray tracing, however as soon as once more the magic of DLSS turns the tables and makes even a mid-tier GPU of this nature able to playable efficiency on RT Extremely. Cyberpunk seems to be unbelievable with ray tracing, however with out it you are still getting an excellent visible expertise, another spectacular than most video games in the marketplace (IMHO).

So on excessive or extremely settings (with out ray tracing) you may get round 40-45FPS on common, proving that the sport actually is not that loopy demanding with out ray tracing and {that a} mid-tier CPU and GPU combo just like the Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 2060 Tremendous is surprisingly succesful at 1440p. However if you’d like ray tracing to expertise Night time Metropolis in its full graphical glory, with a 1440p monitor you may need a RTX 3060 Ti at least, even with DLSS turned on. With DLSS at 1440p, I personally would not use another setting than DLSS High quality or DLSS Balanced, and with both of these two settings you may want extra firepower than a RTX 2060 Tremendous (or a ballpark equal card just like the RX 5700 XT) to succeed in that ultimate realm of 40FPS and above.

That wraps up this quick and candy Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark, and in close to future as I plan to increase right into a extra various {hardware} take a look at bench I hope to convey to you guys and gals benchmarks that embrace a spread of various GPUs (and never only one). Together with for VR titles, which is predominantly what I play once I give myself the occasional time away from work to sit back out. Cyberpunk is a uncommon non-VR title that peaked my curiosity, therefore why I’ve coated it fairly extensively on the location these previous few weeks regardless of my virtually unique use of VR these days (sure, it truly is that significantly better regardless of the mainstream having not caught on simply but…quickly).

However I should be sincere, I have been taking part in it largely in VR too! Wait – say what? VorpX, pal. It is mainly VR simulation software program than can flip some non-VR video games like Cyberpunk right into a semi-VR expertise inside your VR headset. Search YouTube for “vorpx cyberpunk” and you may see some folks doing it. It is fairly cool, and exploring Night time Metropolis in digital actuality (nicely, semi digital actuality) is kind of surreal. However it’s tremendous taxing on the GPU and actually struggles on the 2060 Tremendous, so I eagerly await my upcoming GPU improve to dive again in.

See Additionally: Cyberpunk 2077 Requirements for 60FPS (Build Guide)

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