Cyberpunk 2077 | OPTIMIZATION GUIDE | Every Setting Benchmarked | Best Settings | Ray Tracing

[@benchmarking4386]

New video for the Phantom Liberty expansion : kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHyTn4B9q5mnqrM

[@ImAltair1]

The effort you put into these videos is very appreciated! These videos are great. Keep up the amazing work

[@DawnApon]

The fact you can give examples between different hardware-bound scenarios is extremely useful for someone like me. And also gives me confidence in your testing methodology that you can say and show that.

[@ThiagoJaqueta]

Just a small heads-up, settings that increase the resolution of shadows or textures, might not seem to have an impact on performance at first, but these settings will increase the amount of VRAM used, so if you're running low on VRAM (On a GPU with 4GB or 6GB for instance), you'll get more stutters while playing if you're capping the VRAM usage. RT Shadows will also add Variable Penumbra to directional shadows. This means that the shadow of an object that is far away from the point where the shadow is being casted into will look soft, while objects that are near the point where the shadow is being casted will look sharp. This makes a big difference in most areas in the game, specially around skyscrapers. There's a similar rasterization technique for that called PCSS (Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows) which doesn't requires Ray-tracing, but sadly CDPR never implemented this.

[@juliansjeandawsonarchive]

Yeah, and I believe AMD has PCHS but I’m not sure if that’s better / worse. The last game I remember seeing both in was GTA V. Great port IMO, and I think holds up for being a port compared to a native PC/Console development.

[@HallyVee]

Very helpful, although I've usually found I've been able to turn textures up as high as I want in basically any game with only 6 GB of vram. I wonder if maybe they just load fast enough that I don't notice at 60 fps.

[@shotnothing3419]

​@@juliansjeandawsonarchivePCHS is available on both AMD and Nvidia, its game specific

[@stylie473joker5]

It would be a great idea to set up a patreon so that people donate for you to buy more games and test them

[@luizmchd4]

"Shut up and take my money!"

[@takemysauce]

Agree. I'd pay for him to test more games. We need more guides like these

[@MarkFox-nt7ls]

Can you not just buy the games yourself and test them yourself 😂

[@takemysauce]

@Mark Fox because these videos help you get a better understanding of what each setting does, differences in graphics, and how it impacts performance, all in a video format. And it's quicker to watch a 10 minute video than testing every single setting yourself. Not everyone has the time for that. I'll happily pay him a little bit of money to test more games and at the same time support the creator for what he does. This isn't easy work

[@toad7395]

​@@MarkFox-nt7ls Its a win win no? We support a youtuber he like and he posts more videos

[@viktoremil5428]

In this game, I updated DLSS from 2.4.3 to 2.5.1, use the NVIDIA Image Scaling sharpness filter and downloaded a texture mod from Hulk Hogan, now thanks to your settings I have raised the DLSS (4K) level from performance to balance and the picture has become even cleaner, without significant loss of quality! Thank you for what you are doing!

[@Xilent1]

What GPU are you using to play this in 4k? I waited to play this game cause I want to play it in 4k RT. Which is one reason why I waited to play this game, plus bug fixes from launch.

[@viktoremil5428]

@@Xilent1 I have a laptop based on the 3080, it is similar in performance to the dextopic 3070, but with 16GB of video memory. There can be no question of any RT. All I can hope for is a smooth 60 FPS with these optimized settings + DLSS on balance, without RT. I have seen tests where even 4090 on ULTRA+RT PSYCHO without using DLSS gives ~45 FPS. I recommend waiting for Overdrive Mode for Cyberpunk 2077, buy 4090 (if the budget allows), use these optimized settings + DLSS.

[@fioralangust]

​@@Xilent1 For RT 4K you can only play with a nvidia card. And you gonna need a lot of VRAM (at least 16 GB imo). There is only the 4080 or 4090 to consider as of today (3090 and 3090 ti need to lower settings and RT too much). You gonna have to play with DLSS even with a 4090, DLSS + Frame Generation with a 4080, buy a 144hz 4K Monitor and optimize a bit.

[@superslavbross9935]

Can anyone playing in 1440p on DLSS quality tell if going to 2.5.1 makes any difference ? OR is it gonna get better performance ? Thank you in advance

[@redclaw72666]

​@@superslavbross9935 plays fine on my end using 3440x1440p have a video of it on my channel with dlss 2.5.1

[@biofringe4983]

Really appreciate the hard work and the long hours that this took. Thank you so much. BTW, really love how you separated everything into groups. Works well that way and all Benchmark videos from everyone should be like that going forward. You have revolutionized the genre.

[@DawcioX16]

Love the video!

[@bananaboy482]

Fantastic video. Not too dumbed down, not too complicated. Fast and to the point. Great analysis. Love it

[@itayraviv2422]

Thank you so much!! You put me from sub 60s into averaging 80-90, with no drop in quality.

[@VadymPecherskyi]

Yes, man! Please continue to do such videos! I recently bought 3060ti and your guides (for Hogwarts for example) helped me to play games at full potential of my gpu. You got my thanks, subscription and like!)

[@MVITCU]

Hands down one of the best comparison and optimization videos on Cyberpunk - well done sir. Much appreciated

[@unbreakableironman]

Awesome! This is what the developers should disclose to the players. Thank you. Just one thing, you say sometimes 4% drop in frames when it should be 4 frames dropped. Like at 5:40, it's 4 frames difference, so the math is 4/64, which is 6.25% drop frame percentage.

[@benchmarking4386]

Yes that was a mistake it's 6% not 4% , Thanks for pointing that out.

[@reixie]

@@benchmarking4386 but thank you so much for the video and the work u put into this! i subbed for more

[@UNMERILLY]

You already said it but it's very important, this game can go from GPU to CPU bound territory really quick depending of where you're located on the map. With my 5600x and 3080 I see only 10 fps of difference with all rtx stuff cranked up VS off when I'm in cpu bound place like outside V appartement, if I do the same test in less crowded street the fps difference go up to like 40 fps. I suggest everyone to really take this into account while tuning your settings, don't tune them in busy place, find a spot where you get GPU bound and only then go to a crowded place to fine tune

[@MrVvulf]

5:32 One thing you might point out if you do other videos on settings with field of view. Wider field of view does allow you to see more of what's going on to the left and right...BUT there is a cost. The higher you set your field of view, the further away objects directly in front of you appear. Personally, I like 80-85% is where I like it best. 100% is far too warped. LOVE your guide, and it's been a great tool for me to optimize the settings to my hardware.

[@ll42557]

literally yesterday I was checking if you made a video about optimizing cyberpunk xD after your atomic heart optimization video only you could save me on this issue, thanks!

[@mfenix88]

Highly underrated mate. Hope the algorithm blesses you soon. Appreciate the hard work. It was a great video

[@HugoM.M.]

You rock. Amazing work that helps the PC Gamer community a lot.

[@carpelunam]

my man put the optimized settings all a the end in one picture.. Nice! 🤠 Subscribed!

a note i want to add is that setting color precision to high causes flashes of light to appear while ray traced lighting is enabled

[@ExistentialSadness]

I just upgraded from GTX 1070 to RTX 3060 Ti and playing with Ryzen 5600, damn man, your settings made my gameplay fluid and smooth as hell, thanks!

[@collinsrv]

This guide is pure gold! Once again you've outdone yourself

[@dabylon6280]

Followed these settings exactly for my desired resolution and gained 25% performance. Excellent video

[@zekkecaina3684]

Here is someone who has an rx 6600 and a ryzen 7 5700g, with this configuration I was able to achieve stability at 70 or 85 maximum fps, before in areas with a lot of load it dropped to 55 fps, it is a change and a quite satisfactory configuration, thank you very much

[@WilsonBradleyTheOfficial]

This was a perfect way of explaining settings (considering there are so many different variables of hardware). When people know which are the big performance hitters, people can adjust accordingly. Please keep it up. (Subscribed)

[@raphaelouellet7325]

Reallly high quality content, seriously goodjob

[@662mann8]

this video is amazing, subed becuase of the quality

[@Xinamon98]

Great video, I was on lowest settings and this increased the quality with only a small performance hit. Thank you!

[@_PsychoFish_]

Looked for this, because the Digital Foundry video is a bit outdated. You did an amazing job! The only thing that would make it even better is, if you put your optimized settings into the video description 😁

[@danielma1359]

Amazing optimization. What a truly KING channel! Thanks for our service to us :)

[@MazzSpaticus]

This is a gem of a channel.

[@SomsaiArts]

Oh wow! Performance jumped and doesn't seem like I lost any quality. Great video. Thanks!

[@MMOLegend]

our 3060Ti handled CP like a champ

[@jameshardy6277]

Excellent video mate. I'll use these settings for the DLC later this year.

[@SuperEaglehorn]

brother. ive followed your steps in gta 5 now cyberpunk. i will say it proudly. you are the best in when it comes to optimizations. habibi .. you are so frkn under-rated. salam.

[@WilsonBradleyTheOfficial]

Thanks, one of the best tuts for settings. One recommendation, on the comparison screens, could you add the name of the setting? For example for the Hard hitters, a person could look at the different settings and what they are getting , but forgot which setting it was. Hope this makes sense. Basically the name of the setting on same screen shot

[@matthewcpaul]

Thank you for the video! Following this allowed me to get stable 50-60 fps without much drop while keeping crowd density high.

[@HallyVee]

Wow. THIS is how to do a gfx options comparison video! It even goes further and adds comparisons between CPU/GPU!

[@cyroin4146]

Thank you so much, by far the best and detailed Video about that topic! I want you for all my games and the rest of my life.

[@unruhestiffter8617]

This is the Best Video about Cyberpunk Graphicsettings i see so far! Respect for you BenchmarKing.

[@nottrenlucky]

I love you. You made my game run even on my potato pc with amazing graphic and with stable 60-70 fps! Thank you so much

[@joedurling2894]

Side by side is very helpful. I can't tell a difference most of the time when I have to enter and exit the menu first.

[@Neroskully]

Dude, thanks. I had been looking for a way to optimize this game. At first it was buggy. But now it's super smooth. These settings work great, especially with dlss.

[@katytis2012]

Benchmarking, you give digitalfoundry a good competition with such an across the board great video! Keep doing what you're doing! 💪

[@bigbadslimee]

one of the best channels on yt for this kind of videos

[@l0boen]

Thank you! Exactly what I needed. Keep up the same format. Comparison is huge and in one screen is perfect. Great job!

[@ciri1058]

Thanks for the support!

[@219SilverChoc]

Thanks for making a guide that covers the game as it is now! Does FSR clean up the noise from lower SSR settings better than the default TAA?

[@JustBeloga]

I just purchased cbp today and this helped so much. Thank you

[@jaysharp5654]

short and quick summary of all the settings. subscribed!

[@CoinsBand]

Great guide! I'd like to add that running the game in borderless instead of fullscreen seemed to make a huge difference in performance for me. Much less stuttering, especially while driving through the city as the game loads in new assets.

[@DAVICII]

Thanks a lot, I was searching for videos like this. You are the best. You helped me with using my 8GB vram 3070Ti for the time I have to wait till I can buy a new GPU. Now I can enjoy my games with more fps without losing to much visual quality.

[@lking000]

Ridiculously helpful. Thanks for this. Truly excellent work.

[@criticalcharly5884]

Man, you are a god hahahaha the best place to find the better visual-performance boosts for your games without a doubt. Keep the good work ^^

[@xDebugger_Gameplay]

Your optimization guide is top notch!!! The effort you put into these video is very much appreciated!!!

[@I.amKAALAHARI]

Friend, thank you very much for this video! I'm Brazilian and I don't understand much English so I'm translating to thank you.

[@TddyPcker]

dude you have no fucking idea of how much this video helped me. Thank you very much for the effort that you putted in that

[@NuclearCha0s]

This video is fantastic. Seen lots of these, none so well thought out.

[@ElectroMoe]

Really appreciate these videos. Cyberpunk is a beast. I love it.

[@jamesbowman5062]

Thank you my friend, nice to see a modern take since the updates.

[@ai.graphics]

My best friend, It's always great. I wish you every day of your development. Have a happy day!

[@MendozaZaurio]

Incredible guide to undertand all settings of cyberpunk, I was terrified to undertand what thing make what haha big like, I'm big fan

[@padre4785]

damn this dude is the official benchmark king 🤴🏻

[@chronablitz]

Awesome video man! will you do a updated version of this video when update 2.0 comes out?

[@benchmarking4386]

Yes , I will make another video for the Phantom Liberty expansion.

[@OoooomgOmgOmg]

I agree with everything except the DLSS. On Native resolution I found the TAA is better especially for far distance objects and I don't know why but the frame rate seems to be more stable.

[@conyo985]

Heyo! An updated optimization guide. This is awesome!

[@TheAncientVessel]

love these guides enjoy sharing these with my friends when they are having issues on random games! thanks for all you do brother

[@Luxinatoris]

Big fan of the channel, keep up the good work, you will definitely grow really fast.

[@nym7973]

Thanks man, this helped me get up and running for Update 2.0. Cheers!

[@mariop8101]

Thanks with your optimization guide, i was able to play at 1440p DLSS quality with RT Reflections at 60fps most of the times on my 3060 ti.

[@KirbaZ]

My man! What a great video. Exactly what I was looking for ++. Clear and concise explanations.

[@carlosandres8974]

you deserve more subs great vid

[@onionrangerduck7024]

Are you gonna do Starfield video on day 1? (assume it launched on time)

[@i3runo5ereno]

Oh, good question, and, I want to know too.

[@Vitorbertoloto]

great video as always, just a question: in the final side-by-side comparison, did you have an upscale method activated or was that absurd mistake just with the adjustments in the graphic options? I ask this because it was not specified in the completion part of all options.

[@benchmarking4386]

No there was no Upscale Method or Ray Tracing activated on both sides , that was native 1620p , the difference in performance came just from tweaking settings.

[@capetamenino]

@@benchmarking4386 Do you recommend to use dlss at 1080p resolution for image quality?

[@Vitorbertoloto]

@@benchmarking4386 oh my, this is amazing, you made me stop believing in game requirements... the controversy about the last of us requirements will surely have its truth revealed here, won't it? hahahaha congratulations for everything!!

[@benchmarking4386]

@@capetamenino Yes give it a try just don't go below Quality mode , even at 1080p DLSS does a good job and you won't have any ghosting unlike TAA.

[@capetamenino]

@@benchmarking4386 thank you

[@mrosa7515]

04:20 Funny that the shadows farther away are still present but the near ones are faded due to this setting...

[@THEYEAR2143]

The exact break down I hoped to find ! Thank you

[@Wintermist-SWE]

Gods, thank you for this. It made it so easy to see what you want to change, thanks to your side by side visual comparisons.

[@maki1532]

Was waiting for this, thanks a lot I really wish you do more Optimization Guides for other games like (hitman, Horizon Zero Dawn, Jedi Fallen Order…) while waiting for new games to come out. Or give us a choice to vote which games to make a video on, i think you are so cool thank you for your help as always.

[@death2all79zx]

Awesome guide, thank you for making it. I had to turn down my textures to low with ray tracing on in order to fit under the 8 gigabyte memory on my video card.

[@ritayandhara7638]

Really like your detailed analysis on each option. Can you please do a similar optimization guide for ms flight simulator.

[@maki1532]

If possible, Kingdom Come: Deliverance need an optimization guide

[@Daster17]

Just bought you a coffee) Thanks for your detailed videos bro and giant effort to them. keep it up ❤

[@benchmarking4386]

👍

[@VipapkStudiosOfficial]

Thanks for the effort you've put into all this, you're a living legend! ^^

[@SimonJJFletcher]

Brilliant, thank you for your clear and concise walk through 👍🏻

[@WilsonBradleyTheOfficial]

Would have been nice to also see a screen shot of your NVIDA control settings. Also not sure where / how to disable TAA or FSR..

[@Mr.NiceUK]

Both DLSS and FSR replace native TAA. With cyberpunk 2077 there is no explicit option for TAA, it's enabled when both DLSS and FSR are disabled implicitly (so for good or bad you can't have native rendering without TAA with the in game settings in 2077 at least)

[@WilsonBradleyTheOfficial]

@@Mr.NiceUK Thanks. This is good to know. Not everyone would assume this.

[@siriansight]

Brilliantly done. Well done, sir. Arguably better than Digital Foundry Really man, thanks 🤝

[@AzithromY]

Bro i just discovered your channel by your witcher 3 optimisation vid. And I absolutely love your work! I cannot imagine how many hours of testing every one of us would do or even give up if we didnt have you in our gaming community

[@benchmarking4386]

You're welcome Bro And congrats on your new GPU have fun.

[@AzithromY]

Thank you ☺️, I will 😉

[@khaosedger]

Dude thanks! keep it up! love these benchmarks

[@diegoleiva7242]

I'm averaging 45 FPS with a GTX1650 and a modest Ryzen 3750H with your settings in 1080p and some XeSS thrown in. Thank you so much!

[@alanmoyano]

A lot of work is in this video, thank you so much for this

[@RunningFromMachines]

Just commenting to give your video more attention, this was an awesome video and helped out alot, thanks!

[@is0ris]

i love ur content, u got urself a new subscriber... من أي البلاد أنت؟

[@TheHappyBrochacho]

I truly appreciate you brother. I recently decided to start playing again, and when i ran the benchmark i was surprised to see that I was at 40 FPS. on a rtx rog strix 3060 12GB and a ryzen 5 5600x that is almost insulting. I followed your guide to the word and I went up to avg 80 FPS. Could be higher but I opted for a few QOL options for visual purposes. I'm going to check my control panel settings to see if I can squeeze out some more performance. I have a 165Hz 1440p HDR 10 monitor so I want to make sure that the control panel settings aren't holding the game back.

[@aleedocious]

thank you for showing each change, very helpful

[@MrRobeeru]

Great video as always. Would you consider reviewing any graphic enhancing mods for the game?

[@R.alzate1997]

One of the best Guidelines

[@muhendizm5440]

Great video

[@brandoncorwin8812]

Doin the lords work here. Keep it up.

[@SpudLord_PhD]

Was wondering if you plan in doing an updated one of these for the 2.0 update that came out today because this video really helped me out in the past.

[@benchmarking4386]

I'll do one for the Phantom Liberty expansion.

[@SpudLord_PhD]

@benchmarking4386 ok sweet and that make more sense.

[@Valik2104]

Great video, thanks. Any recommendations for the steam deck?

[@Ahzumer]

best video ive seen yet. great job!