CD Projekt RED has revealed the official Ray Tracing PC requirements for Cyberpunk 2077. Furthermore, the team has further detailed the non-RT PC requirements for this upcoming RPG.
As CD Projekt RED noted, for gaming at 1440p/Ultra, PC gamers will need an Intel i7 4790K or AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with 12GB. PC gamers will also need an NVIDIA GeForce RTX2060 or an AMD Radeon RX5700XT.
For gaming at 4K/Ultra, CD Projekt RED recommends using an RTX 2080 Super, RTX3070 or an AMD Radeon RX 6800XT.
Now what’s really interesting here is that CD Projekt RED has not listed any AMD GPUs for its Ray Tracing PC requirements. NVIDIA has stated that Cyberpunk 2077 uses DXR for all of its Ray Tracing effects, and that all DXR-compatible GPUs should be able to support them. Thus, we are not certain whether AMD’s GPUs will indeed support RT at launch.
But anyway, CD Projekt RED recommends using an RTX2060 for gaming at 1080p with Medium Ray Tracing. For Ultra Ray Tracing at 1440p, the team recommends using an RTX3070. Finally, for 4K/Ultra Ray Tracing, CDPR recommends using an RTX 3080.
Lastly, CD Projekt RED has not listed the framerate that these specs target. However, we can safely assume that they target 30fps.
Cyberpunk 2077 releases on December 10th!
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All of this is useless until they specify the target FPS. At least nvidia came out and said that the RT specs are with DLSS combined.
You have to remember that the game will have Ray Tracing Global Illumination and Ray Tracing Shadows and Ray Tracing Ambient Occlusion and Ray Tracing Reflections. Some games only use one of those effects and can’t even run with 60fps at 4K/Ultra on an RTX3080. So yeah, I do expect this game to be heavy on Ultra.
Huh?
On the NVIDIA channel they only spoke about shadows and reflection.
ok so we have the system requirements… but what exactly does this
entail? Is this basically to hit a minimum 60fps? I am gonna be playing
at 1440p Ultra non-ray tracing. Based on my system I expect to hit
100fps minimum. 12GB Memory… Guess I won’t be alt-tabbing to multiple
chrome tabs of pr0nhub during gameplay LOL
It has to run on base consoles from previous gen, i would expect the raytracing to be a framerate killer without DLSS tho.
I am hoping the ps4 version is nothing more then a hardcore compressed downgrade and the pc version looks good. but some of the videos of the game shown non offially looked pretty damn weak
I doubt there’s a big difference between consoles and PC outside of the quality of raytracing (and next gen consoles are just higher settings than the base consoles…so) yeah…the game looks dated because it technically is a dated game.
does not kill frames in Dirt 5 on AMD GPU’s… 😀
You need to look at the detail missing to understand why Dirt 5 is not a good example.
Yeah turn on DLSS so I can enjoy everything with a black border around it.
Hey it will look like Borderlands!! would match the gameplay.
I’m quite surprised that for 1440p ultra the recommended are as low as they are. It must be very well optimized for PCs then. I just hope my 3080 comes before 10th so I can enjoy this game in all it’s glory.
not optimized. they just downgraded the graphics probably to support ps4 and xbox
Betting this game runs like pure garbage. None of the videos really make the game look like it is running smooth, and that is surely the best hardware running behind it.
the requirements are too low to run like crap. But rtx it will be impossible to run well with that level of complexity.
Not if they are targets for 30fps, which is what everyone is saying.
Has CDPR said anything official regarding target FPS?
No but all their gameplay footage is at 30, it’s why they refuse to turn the camera or move quickly. They don’t want people to realize it.
There is not a single 60 fps video of this game indeed, even this video which is obviously running on PC
It’s the biggest red flag I’ve ever seen.
rtx 3070 and rx6800xt same level?!
From what I’ve read the 6800 XT is faster than a 3070 but not quite as fast as a 3080.
Maybe a better comparison would be the 3070 and 6800 (non-XT).
yeah,that’s why i was surprised to see it alongside rtx 3070 here.
Hardware unboxed 26 game benchmark shows otherwise… It’s a Nvidia game with TWIMTBP alover it. Sad to see a dev team shill so hard for Nvidia when the game it’self is based around console hardware that is AMD hardware..
Hardware unboxed 26 game benchmark shows otherwise…
I don’t follow Hardware Unboxed but most review sites are saying the 3080 is faster on average than the 6800 XT. I’m not putting the 6800 XT down. It’s a great GPU but on average it is slower than a 3080. The 3080 MSRP is $50 more than the 6800 XT but MSRP is meaningless right now.
Well maybe you should look into hardware unboxed on youtube 😀 They are not shills
Depending on the game and the resolution. Check Jarred’s review on tomshardware.com, he benchmarked 9 games. On average 6800 XT is on par with 3080, quite faster than 3070. So I guess both 6800s are slower in this game.
i refuse to believe that this area in 0:26 is in the game, too big too complex, looks like a movie or akira. Guess we will see.
2:38, instead of rtx, you can do this wet street effect with enb in gta iv or that gta san andreas graphics mod.
that is weird recommendations
What is the frame rate for these requirements? These specs mean nothing if it is not indicating the frame rate.
LOL
Its gonna be downgraded
Haters…
Ubisoft/Obsidian… Is that you?
is this site called Dark side of gaming coz the comment section is filled with edge lords who never say anything positive ? lol
It’s a gaming site for black people actually.
I don’t exactly like some of the comments here too but it’s one of the few places where people don’t pretend that everything is alright.
people are not cynical by nature, these folks have seen things from Ubisoft, EA and companies of that ilk that gives them reason to believe something might be wrong.
people have a right to free speech, be it positive or negative. if it overwhelms you, you need to refrain from visiting this website.
Why does everyone start screeching about free speech whenever anyone is criticized here?
Nobody is saying you shouldn’t be allowed to be brainlessly cynical. You have every right to say what you want here.
And everyone else has the right to criticize what you’re saying.
The problem isn’t that people are being cynical, it’s that they are needlessly negative for no real reason other than using other game launches to justify their opinions of games that *haven’t even come out yet*. It’s completely mindless criticism. Instead of judging games case by case, it’s completely one sided with no objectivity or nuance.
If you’re going to talk about a game, at least have the intellectual honesty to analyze games on the whole instead of focusing purely on the negatives.
Some of the comments here are trash edge lords, almost weird but I’m
glad this place exists. It’s the last place I’ve seen that’s actually
liberal regarding gaming as a medium. I don’t always like it the comments
but the articles are great. Proper independent up to date news. Rare
things these days.
I completely agree. I love this site. The news here clearly isn’t influenced by external sponsors or otherwise. And I like their hands off policy for moderation.
I just wish the so called “critiques” in the comment section were more intelligent and constructive.
I love this site and the articles. The comment section is totally different but thats what people voted for when the site asked how to moderate the comment section. People apparently like to say negative or toxic things here and some comments i realy find disgusting.
BUT i am glad it is alowed because somethings sometimes needed to be said how negative it can sound.
Your both right.But you can’t deny is also a lot of random hate and subjectivity.Most of the negative comments are towards a game that is not even out yet.Cyberpunk 2077 is a good example.
LOL you pretty much nailed it.
It’s true, almost every article has the usual bunch of attention seeking cry baby whingers who think it’s cool and edgy to put a negative spin on everything. It’s almost predictable who will whinge each time, even when free games are announced they still whinge. Then there is the words like woke etc the get overused, it’s lame. Then they complain about John’s articles about UT4 engine demos etc, when clearly if they don’t have any interest in them they did not have to click on the article in the first place, but they do so they can whinge more and put John down. What this certain group of negative people don’t realize is that there not edgy, there losers trying to get attention and the decent people in here should just ignore or block them in future.
I block no one. Not even dagoat.
The number of Positive sheeps and consoomer’s defense force are surpassing that. what are you crying about ?
It’s got it’s flaws for sure lol. Still better than PC you know what-er, by far.
This isn’t a reddit containment zone where everyone is scared sh*tless of a commie d*ke mod deleting all their gold for wrongthink. Welcome to the real world, where people actually complain, and have real feelings, real opinions and such
guess we’ll find out soon, … as soon as …2024, maybe?
Of course they cannot list what AMD card needed for RT. they most likely does not have access to AMD 6800s during development to really test AMD perfromance. Not when AMD try to be secretive about thier performance. Plus this is nvidia sponsored game. AMD most likely did not want to give early access to their hardware to CDPR either due to not wanting nvidia have a peek on their cards performance.
30FPS? A “console experience” on PC? So much for “PC players at heart”.
Look at the like dislike rate, the guy spoke nothing but truth, the Polaks have cult behind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW-gLVYI1uk
Yeah, this is the fanboy mentality in general.
I expect downgrades just like W3. Sadly the Polaks are backed by a cult.
No, the game looks better now than it did in 2018. They even took pride in this and they released oficial comparisons some months ago between how the game looks now and how it did 2 years ago.
And regarding Witcher 3, thats something the ignorant internet parots. Anyone who knows a tiny bit of how game development works knows that what they showed in 2013 was a small slice of a portion of the game. There wasnt a game yet to downgrade or nonsense like that. They had a vertical slice to show the public at that time and as development progressed further, they saw that it wasnt feasible for the entire game to look like that. It was mostly oversharpened in 2013 anyway. Then the internet at large who has zero knowledge usually about the things it screams about started the “downgrade” poetry
They lied you tard until the last day, even blamed YouTube compression for the worst quality.
I guess we will see how this other turns out.
how the hell some people don’t see such a big lie man, i wonder.
Oy vey it was the YouTube compression kurwa.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1ae381dbce6db66e51a15904c50102356356c5d94c9dfa1227d404af98b2a70f.jpg
thanks for the pic,still some people want o be always blind
sadly.
you wrote so much in ignorance.they lied.
like witcher 2 that they showed a city and said you can go there and in the actual game it was the are you escaped from prison.
Because games change during development. You may want to do something at the start of dev, but then as the years go and you progress, you see one thing you wanted to do doesnt gel well with other systems. You thought you could have a level of fidelity, but that will break the entire game in another aspect.
Things like this happen all the time, with any game. But most people who comment on this site, like the ones above, are bottom of the barrel tier. Just acting outraged and being “master race” unironically and not knowing the first thing about anything. Just parroting uninformed internet memes
yawn
it was a downgrade decision. cdpr even admitted the downgrade in Witcher 3 long time ago. They are not good at making use of more cores.
man,it is now obvious that you are an imbecile thinking us as pc master race influenced and outraged people simply because we are unhappy with cd project lies!you have serious mental problems.mor*ns like you are the reason why we still may/do see downgraded products.Illyricum Sacrum posted a screen shot proving their lies,nonetheless you defend them .there is no hope for you…
Talking out of your as*: the post.
I doubt they’ll even open their minds to listen to this but it’s completely accurate.
Witcher 3 actually got newer tech (PBR) after the trailers released and it made the entire worlds materials look significantly more realistic. But I do agree that some aspects of the game were not as they appeared in the trailers, specifically the lighting in skellige.
Claiming CP 2077 was downgraded though is complete nonsense. We had very clear comparison screenshots and it was so obvious that it was improved.
To this day you can still see the preview gameplay trailers and the final game doesnt come even close to that…even when they use screenshots with that quality to sell the game still
The screenshots are bullshots. But pretty much everyone knew and expected that. What WAS a downgrade was this: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/efaf95e7e4f19602dae9db35b4922411faff5fe30db3048847288919d38efb22.png
I don’t disagree there was a downgrade. But the claim that the final game “doesn’t even come close” is bogus. There’s very specific areas where the game looks worse than the announcement trailers.
It doesnt come close is true, the lighting took a huge hit (people still are trying to replicate the E3 ligthing mod..but without proper tools is basically impossible). They butchered the LOD, the quality of the hair (check Geralt hair without hairworks in the previews and the final game), not to mention the cut content and features..but that’s common in every game…they butchered the game, is a miracle that even with all that is still a good game.
Granted, probably they will adress that with the “next gen” upgrade.
How do you measure “huge hit”? Modders do all sorts of stuff, it doesn’t prove anything if they attempt something.
The rest of what you’re saying is massive hyperbole. People don’t care about graphics as much as you think.
“miracle that even with all that is still a good game.” LOL.
TW3 is widely regarded as one of the best RPG’s ever made for the story, the experience, and the overall gameplay. You think a lack of high poly hair and lighting is gonna change that?
>People dont care about graphics
>TW3 the best RPG ever made
How do you measure “it wasnt a huge downgrade” then?
I wont even consider your ad populum falacies…but you lost touch with reality…
>People dont care about graphics
>TW3 the best RPG ever made
How do you measure “it wasnt a huge downgrade” then?
I wont even consider your ad populum falacies…but you lost touch with reality…
Wtf? These are verifiable facts. Lmao just because you recently learned how to look up what fallacies are doesn’t mean my argument is wrong. If you wanna talk fallacies you’re attacking a strawman. I never said people don’t care about graphics. I said “not as much as you think”.
There are plenty of surveys that show how little gamers care about visuals *relative* to the actual game.
There’s also the fact that TW3 is the most awarded game of all time and has overwhelmingly high ratings across all platforms.
“but you lost touch to reality…” coming from the guy who said “miracle that even with all that is still a good game”…get a grip.
With all the well known issues the game had in development you dont consider it a miracle? again…you consider the majority opinion as a fact…is kinda sad. Awards and reviews mean crap.
No I dont consider it a miracle. If you had any experience in game dev you’d know that these things happen. Every issue is not a catastrophic failure on the part of the devs.
“Awards and reviews mean crap”
Then how the hell do you judge a game ? Once again, you dismiss aggregate data in favor of your personal opinion and then project it as if it’s actually true.
CDPR mangament is a mess, is widely known.
I judge games by my own experience? is not that hard.
CDPR mangament is a mess, is widely known.
I judge games by my own experience? is not that hard.
Jesus christ I’m not talking about individual experience. I never said *your* personal experience has to be good, I said it was “widely regarded” as one of the greatest videogames of all time. The only way you can measure”widely regarded” is via aggregate data.
And i already told you that it doesnt mean anything to me, the same goes to your opinion (and is likewise from you to me, making this discussion pointless, we agree on that)
Ok, but you said I was out of touch with reality for making that claim, when in fact, that claim can be made based on real data.
I couldn’t give a less of a f what you think of TW3, I was only responding to you dismissing that claim as if it was my personal opinion.
Show me the data then, instead of wasting our time trying to explain it.
Sure.
1. Most awarded video game of all time:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9fba3d0c6ca1d2eab332a75de7bdcce0adcc3defffde07d2980afc3bf4e80332.png
2. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ab53009d21e35e7a63972f00f823b508806a3d56e48404a9528a4750a7678aee.png
Agreed and disagreed. The Witcher 3 can look gorgeous on the PC. However, it wasn’t as mind-blowing as some of its early trailers showcased. So in a way, the game took a big visual hit (it wasn’t a small one, it was almost similar to the Watch Dogs downgrade-ation). The fact that CDPR was trying to hide this (by saying that the game has not been downgraded at all) was the biggest issue here IMO.
Yep. I’m more pissed off at the lack of holding themselves accountable than the actual downgrade itself, since it wasn’t a huuge downgrade.
If people notice (and i talking about casuals that barely care about games) it i wouldnt consider minor?. Funny how Watchdogs (yes, another game with a huge downgrade) gets a lot of crap but CDPR gets a safe card for doing the same thing. Of course, Witcher 3 delivered in other aspects too, that helps.
I never said it’s not noticeable lmfao. I said it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Watchdogs didn’t flop mainly because of it’s graphics. It was just an all around bad game, and wasn’t very fun.
Yes, exactly. Witcher 3 delivered on the *game* aspect of videogame. It succeeded because it was fundamentally a good game. Visuals would’ve made it even better, but it’s not the primary reason people played it.
Visuals wont matter in a medium that the previous generation of consoles was about resolution and lighting, and in the new one is about higher resolution, framerate and raytracing…sure, people dont care about visuals…when the whole bussiness depends on it to sell (yes, i agree graphics dont make a good game…say that to your average joe that buys a toybox)
oh great now you’re conflating two different things.
You’re conveniently now talking about a *platform*. We were previously talking about a *game*.
A game (and you can say about every game that has a PC/console release) that gets affected by the limitations on consoles. I get it, they need the money i guess..not every game has to be Star Citizen…but why PC has to suffer when is a “platform” thats improving every 6-8 months?
You’re completely and obviously changing the discussion. We were previously talking about what people value in a game. Now you’re moving the goalposts and talking about platform limitations imposed on games. Stop wasting my time.
You keep replaying, that’s how discussions work. If you cant relate topics is not my problem.
You’re not wasting my time with a discussion. You’re wasting time by making completely nonsensical connections between random points. My claim was that people value the “fun” aspect of a game over pretty much anything else and this can be proven via polls. You then connected that to the unrelated topic of platforms evolving to support newer tech.
HOW THE HELL YOU VALUE FUN? there’s a ruler to measure that?
Are you genuinely this stupid? Are you even capable of reading?
I’m not saying you measure fun *itself*. I’m saying relative to other factors, gamers that have been polled have consistently said they value fun OVER other factors like graphics, audio, etc.
OK sure, what is fun then?
What fun *is* doesn’t matter in this argument. What matters is that gamers value *whatever fun means to them* OVER other factors.
But if you actually wanna know what fun in a video game is, it’s way too complicated to write out here. There’s whole books on game design dedicated to that exact question.
Here is what’s also funnier here. A lot of people have criticized CDPR for not offering the old (and more demanding) renderer on the PC. However, and if they did, a lot of gamers would be cursing them for offering an unoptimized mess. Take for example Watch Dogs Legion. That game, even on the lowest Ray Tracing setting, has better effects than the next-gen console version. However, it’s also one of the most demanding games when it comes to both CPU and GPU requirements. In fact, even at 4K you can be CPU/RAM-limited when driving. So you have a game that looks and runs better than next-gen consoles from the get-go, but also one that requires a lot of raw power for constant 60fps. And, ironically, people are now asking for a “console-like setting” because the game cannot scale on older hardware. So yeah, I don’t really blame CDPR for downgrading the game. I do blame them though for lying to everyone. Even when we were posting the side-by-side comparisons, they were like “Oh no, we haven’t downgraded anything. Just wait for the final game”.
The CDPR that introduced Ubersampling in Witcher 2 on the settings back in 2011, exclusive to PC and considered just as a plus for futureproofing the game…and that game was on consoles too.
The “platform parity” argument and excuse from them is stupid. On PC you know that the game you cant maxout today, you will in the near future with upgraded hardware. Or we have to wait 7 years with every new console release?
Ubersampling is just a super sampling technique. You can enable Super Sampling via NVIDIA Inspector Tool in a lot of older games, it was nothing new. CDPR simply offered that option in the game.
What you say though will happen with Cyberpunk 2077 as it uses Ray Tracing for numerous effects. So far, CDPR has not announced anything about Ray Tracing on next-gen consoles (or what settings they’ll be using). My guess is that they’ll be using low RT settings, similar to WD: Legion. Hell, even without Ray Tracing, next-gen consoles won’t be using the Ultra settings of the PC. So, in a way, future hardware will provide better visuals and performance. Whether the difference between Low and Ultra RT is worth it is a completely different story though.
My point with ubersampling was that CDPR back a decade ago cared about PC to the point of implementing a “feature” that only a few could use at the time, they didnt care about the advantages that PC has and how that would reflect on consoles. Now they have to have an eye of what a console can do before doing the “PC Port”.
Legion settings for consoles are even lower than the lowest settings you can use on PC.
So far raytracing on consoles is on the low tier compared to what PC did in a couple of years, but too early to tell.
No
they would still be right, after the fiasco that was TW3’s downgrade.
true but those upgraded visuals were expected from a game that has been in development for almost a decade.
in some areas, it looked very bland from the very beginning so those upgrades were necessary
Or they purposely showed an early build that looked downgraded already for the standards of the time (first gameplay trailer 2018) and then they added raytracing and postprocesing all over the place in the recent footages, nice trick to hide a game that already looks dated. To this day the characters (mostly the secondaries) and textures look meh..specially on how empty the game looks density wise.
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Or they purposely showed an early build that looked downgraded already for the standards of the time (first gameplay trailer 2018) and then they added raytracing and postprocesing all over the place in the recent footages, nice trick to hide a game that already looks dated. To this day the characters (mostly the secondaries) and textures look meh..specially on how empty the game looks density wise.
yeah CDPR always downgrade their games to support consoles. They are not good at making games for PC. Look at the specs! They recommend us 4 cores but in reality 10700 or 5600x is the new baseline in a modern PC. They are not good at making games using more cores.
why dafaq they recommend 4 core 8 thread cpu? That is so outdated. A modern 8 core cpu is minimum these days. Look at valhalla and odyssey CPU usage!
Really? Those games lacks ton of optimization:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7969e1a5d89661ec79847232268aa6d5ac5d6c3b0280fc42fe451a8b06483d1e.png
i9 is not good enough for ubisoft games bro.
I hope you are joking….. 😀
Still no target FPS, these requirements shouldn’t been taken seriously
Combine that with the fact that the “RT High” setting still has the RT preset at Ultra. Did they think we wouldn’t notice that? They need to make another chart, this one is a bit silly.
They will not list AMD GPU’s for ray tracing… It’s a Nvidia game… Don’t forget Witcher 3 with it’s 64X Tessellation in order to hurt AMD GPU’s as well as Nvidia GPU’s…
With the amount of delays this game had it will be far from perfect. Expect it to be bug ridden on release day.
Yup ill be waiting a bit for patches, I have no desire to be a beta tester for this game
As I told Inner Conflict, the game will have Ray Tracing Global Illumination and Ray Tracing Shadows and Ray Tracing Ambient Occlusion and Ray Tracing Reflections. Some games only use one of those effects and can’t even run with 60fps at 4K/Ultra on an RTX3080 (even with DLSS). So yeah, I do expect this game to be heavy on Ultra.
Ray Traycing requirememts without framerate targets is fishy.
Reminds me of this quote from Jurassic Park when people watch trailers of RTX effects without knowing how their PC wil run it :
“Oooh! Ahhh! That’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming.”
Maybe better wait for GOTY edition…
Still no gameplay. but hey, jurnos playing it and telling us how it is.
f**k you CDPR, you are over marketing the game and showing it to the
wrong people. will it be good ? i’m sure it will be ok but man they are
handling this game and marketing very poorly.
btw: these PC requirements are disgusting.
If you noticed, look at the downvoters haha, that was the funniest part for me man, they downvoted this also. Just Epic, and those are same SJWs who downvote opposite of this. LMAO.
the comments section on this site is utter trash. Shame the mods and John don’t actually do something about the racist, hate mongering edgelords that taint and ruin literally every single page.
this website has the right at freedom of speech like John has the right at Greek prostitutes! yaay
What details will I play with my I7 4790k @4.8 Ghz,paired with a RTX2080 and 32 Gb di ram @ 2400 Mhz? do you think i will be able to play at 60 fps @1440p and high ray tracing? Sorry for my “maccheroni” english …. I’m from Italy ;)))