Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 “Ray Tracing: Ultra” Game Performance
Now we are going to enable the game’s “Ray Tracing: Ultra” preset, which turns on the standard Ray Tracing in the game, not the new Path Tracing. Remember, with this mode enabled Ray Reconstruction is also not enabled. The goal of these tests is to show you the burden that standard Ray Tracing costs, and how that performs, then compare that with DLSS Super Resolution enabled and then also Frame Generation Enabled. This will tell you what it takes to make standard Ray Tracing playable in Cyberpunk 2077 2.0. We will be using the built-in benchmark for testing performance.
Video Cards included are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Founders Edition, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB Founders Edition, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Founders Edition, ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB OC Edition, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Edition and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition. We will test each one at different resolutions, as is appropriate for the video card, RTX 4060/4060 Ti at 1080p, 4070/4070 Ti at 1440p, and RTX 4080/4090 at 4K.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 starts off at 36.5FPS at 1080p and is not playable. Enabling DLSS Super Resolution to Auto improves performance by 75% and makes the game playable. Further, enabling Frame Generation improves performance by another 56%. The total improvement with Frame Generation compared to DLSS Off is 172%.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB runs at 47.6FPS at 1080p and is not playable. Enabling DLSS Super Resolution to Auto increases performance by 71% and makes the game playable. Enabling DLSS 3 Frame Generation improves performance by another 53%. The total improvement with DLSS 3 compared to no DLSS is 161%.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 runs at 37.7FPS at 1440p and is not playable. Enabling DLSS Super Resolution to Auto increases performance by 113% and makes the game playable. When we enable DLSS 3 Frame Generation performance increases another 49%. The total improvement with DLSS 3 compared to no DLSS is 218%.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti runs at 49.1FPS at 1440p and is not playable. Enabling DLSS Super Resolution to Auto improves performance by 105% and makes the game playable. Enabling DLSS 3 Frame Generation improves performance by another 48%. The total improvement with DLSS 3 compared to no DLSS is 203%.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 runs at 29.4FPS at 4K and is not playable. However, enabling DLSS Super Resolution to Auto improves performance by 176% and the game is now playable. Enabling DLSS 3 Frame Generation further improves performance by 41%. The total improvement with DLSS 3 compared to no DLSS is 288%.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 runs at 42.8FPS at 4K, and is not playable. Enabling DLSS Super Resolution to Auto improves performance by 150% and makes the game playable. Enabling DLSS 3 Frame Generation improves performance by another 40%. The total improvement with DLSS 3 compared to no DLSS is 251%.