| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Cyberpunk 2077 is an adventure role-playing game set in the metropolis of Night City, where power, luxury and body modification are valued above all else. You play as V, a mercenary in search of a device that will allow you to gain immortality. You’ll be able to change your character’s cyber implants, skills, and playstyle as you explore an open world where your actions affect the course of the story and everything around you.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
This subsection of our review highlights the main graphical aspects of this game. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphic settings and the quality of development of the main visual aspects.
| SUPPORTED OS AND GRAPHICS API |
Cyberpunk 2077 supported by Windows 8 /10/11.
Priority and main graphics API for Cyberpunk 2077 is DX12.
| List of technical ones included in patch 1.5 for Cyberpunk 2077 |
– Improved the appearance of water and added interaction with it. Ripples and splashes now appear on the surface of the water in various situations, such as when colliding with an object or when shooting.
– Improved visual effects of rain on car windows. Drops of water are no longer afraid to fall.
– Motorcycles now have neon wheels. They can be turned on and off by pressing the “E” key on the keyboard, or the left stick on a gamepad, or the left stick on a controller.
– Improved visual effects of the Optical Camouflage implant. If Johnny had this implant in 2023, he would have no problem blowing up Arasaka Tower single-handedly.
– Fixed a bug due to which some subtitles with Johnny’s lines remained hanging on the screen.
– Fixed bugs that caused Avi to fly through buildings.
– The weather system has been improved, it now changes in a more logical way.
– Auto-detection can be enabled for slow hard drive mode. When you turn on the game, it automatically detects which drive it is installed on. If necessary, it will speed up data loading and increase crowd activity, sacrificing diversity in crowd composition, additional loading screens and the amount of detail on the streets during fast driving.
– Added support for AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR) 1.0 technology, which replaced Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS). In the PC version, you can enable it in the Settings → Graphics → Resolution scale menu. This setting cannot be configured on consoles.
– Many fixes and improvements related to game stability and optimization have been made.
– Added performance testing mode. It is located in the Settings → Run test menu.
– Added the “Change walking mode” function when playing with the keyboard. To enable it, press the G key while exploring the world. You can bind this function to another key in the game settings.
– Enabled transparent ray-traced reflections on glossy surfaces of some cars.
– Added support for Variable Rate Shading (VRS) technology. It speeds up rendering and improves graphics quality by changing the intensity of shading for different parts of the frame. Only available on compatible devices.
– Fixed a bug that prevented dynamic resolution from being enabled on AMD video cards when ray tracing was enabled.
Support for NVIDIA 700 series video cards has been discontinued.
– Since these video cards are no longer supported by the manufacturer’s drivers, the minimum system requirements for NVIDIA video cards have increased to GTX 970.
– This does not mean that the game will no longer run on NVIDIA 700 series video cards, but it is no longer used for testing the game.
Windows 7: future support
– Due to the limited capabilities of games with DirectX 12 on devices with Windows 7 and the end of support for this operating system at the driver level for video cards, updates for Cyberpunk 2077 from June 15, 2022 will no longer support Windows 7. The game may no longer work on Windows 7 if you decide to install the following patches released after this date.
| RT ON/OFF |
В Cyberpunk 2077 In addition to the shadows from the lanterns, they also changed the reflections on the cars – now they are mirrored and are much more visible, on other surfaces the materials were also tweaked so that the traced reflections were better visible.
| DLSS/FSR |
DLSS mode seems to be the most preferable in terms of quality.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z97 GIGABYTE GA-X99-Gaming 7 WIFI GIGABYTE GA-AX370-Gaming 5 GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER MSI MPG Z490 GAMING CARBON WIFI MSI MPG Z590 GAMING CARBON WIFI Asus Rog Maximus Z690 Hero |
| Multimedia equipment |
Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply 32 GB DDR4 3200 CL15 ZEN1 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 ZEN2 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 ZEN3 32 GB DDR4 4400 CL18 Comet Lake 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Rocket Lake 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL42 Alder Lake |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 511.79 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 22.2.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes of 1920×1080, 2560×1600 and 3840×2160 the highest quality and ray tracing with its maximum settings. DLSS и FSR tested when setting the maximum quality.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX and GTX video cards are provided by LLC Business Development Center.
| GPU TEST |
In the video card test, the default resolution is 1920×1080; other resolutions are added and removed manually. You can also remove and add any positions of video cards. You can also select any of our test processors from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given video card tests (by default, the most productive solution is selected). The test is carried out on the most powerful CPU in this game and is scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
- Ultra +
- Ultra + RT
When resolved 1920×1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6600 XT or GeForce RTX 2070.
When resolved 2560×1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1080 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX Vega 64 or GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3070.
When resolved 3840×2160an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 3060 Ti level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6800 XT or GeForce RTX 3080.
RT
When resolved 1920×1080 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080s level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6800 XT or GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
When resolved 2560×1440 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6800 FSR or GeForce RTX 3070 level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6900 XT FSR or GeForce RTX3080. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions GeForce RTX 3080 DLSS.
When resolved 3840×2160 an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the GeForce RTX 3080 DLSS level. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level GeForce RTX 3080 Ti DLSS.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on the results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920×1080, 2560×1440 and 3840×2160 with various anti-aliasing settings. By default, the graph displays the most current solutions. Other video cards are added and removed from the schedule at the request of the reader.
- Ultra +
- Ultra + RT
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 5 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 6 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 6 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 6 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 7 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 7 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 7 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabyte.
RT
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 7 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 6 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 video memory consumption of video cards from 8 gigabytes to 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabyte, with 16 gigabytes 12 gigabyte.
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920×1080. In the processor test, you can remove or add any processor positions. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given processor test results (by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most powerful NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales to low-end models.
- Ultra +
- Ultra + RT
When using video cards NVIDIA processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770, and an FPS of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions at the level Ryzen 5 1600 or Core i 7 4770 .
When using video cards AMD acceptable figure is not less than 25 frames per second showed processors Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770, and FPS not lower than 60 frames per second will be able to provide level solutions Ryzen 5 1600 or Core i 7 4770 .
RT
When using video cards NVIDIA processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770, and an FPS of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions at the level Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i 5 10600 .
When using video cards AMD acceptable figure is not less than 25 frames per second showed processors Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770.
- Ultra +
GameGPU
The game can load up to 18 streams. The game uses 16 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 12900K with 32 GB DDR5 5400 MHz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various video cards without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
- Ultra +
- Ultra + RT
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 9 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 9 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 9 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 9 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabyte .
RT
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 10 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 10 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 11 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 10 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards from 8 gigabytes to 14 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabyte , with 16 gigabytes 10 gigabyte .
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