Cyberpunk 2077 Path Tracing Tech Demo



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So I got an RTX4080 GPU which honestly, no-one needs. You can play Cyberpunk perfectly well with an old GTX1080 GPU at 1080p on medium settings and it still looks glorious. At higher resolutions however, and with certain options turned on, you do need something with a bit more grunt, and if you have it this game looks absolutely astonishing.

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39 thoughts on “Cyberpunk 2077 Path Tracing Tech Demo”

  1. Congrats on the upgrade!

    I have a 1080, and I run CP77 at 1080p on Ultra and I get 60fps.

    Very well optimized.

    P.S. You are getting reflexion pop-ins due to the processing requirements of path tracing.

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  2. Jingles, you can also get the game running decently at 1080P with an RX 580. I get my RX 7800 XT in a few weeks which means I'll be able to run it with the raytracing at 3840 x 1080 which is my actual monitor resolution. I may actually be able to get away with the path tracing because there's no way I'm going to be running 4K anytime in the next decade 🙂
    Anyways, I need to go back to my Nomad playthrough where I do all the things before I buy Phantom Liberty. All fixer jobs, Tarot cards, NCPD alerts and Cyberpsychos done so far. Just working through the other jobs before going for the end game. This may still take a while…

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  3. *queue nerdy voice* umm acchually Jingles, there is still a very noticeable difference between high graphics vs medium graphics vs ray tracing on / off at 1080p resolution. i recently upgraded from a 2060 to a 4070 but i haven't yet upgraded my monitor so i'm still running at 1080p and let me tell you, it's a massive upgrade in visuals when you're able to run ray tracing and max graphics with high fps.

    do you NEED it? no, the game still looks pretty good at medium graphics without ray tracing. but there's definitely still a massive jump even at 1080p.

    careful not to brick your shiny new graphics card with all that path tracing though. i'm pretty sure it's mainly meant for screenshots. lol

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  4. I am glad you didn't go for the Start My Fire RTX 4090.

    For me path ray tracing is the only raytracing worth having, but we clearly are not there yet in terms of GPU performance.
    Perhaps in the next generation or the generation after that. Talking about not having to use upscaling and not having to use half a KW GPU.

    Thanks for the video.

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  5. what else could you write off? Groceries for a Home with The Gnome cooking video? Clothes to wear in that? model-kits and paint?
    I also think the cats' commentary is key to the success of your channel, thus you can write off anything cat-related as staff expenses

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  6. My old vet of a computer was having issues and its aging GTX1080 was still making the magic happen, but I'd have I/O errors on start up from time to time, and full blue-screen crashes when I got to Stormveil Castle in Elden Ring until I replaced my power supply. Just a couple weeks ago, I had nonstop blue screens on startup and I had to call it for my old faithful.

    I quickly pieced together the parts for an order at a Microcenter in my range, paid extra for them to build it, and came back after a few days with a shiny new RTX4070-armed beast. Installed and booted up Cyberpunk for the first time as it was a gift and I was saving it for after my upgrade, it took Ultra as the default even after the benchmark I ran, and I was just amazed. Even with going back to air cooling rather than an AIO, the card was pretty quiet while pushing out 70+ fps @ 1440p with the default raytracing enabled.

    It's no Crysis on its own, but this path tracing thing reminds me of it. I'm just glad that the tech has come far enough for previous gen cards to still reasonably keep up with the AAA efforts. Sure, optimization in this day and age has become a lost art, and it would be nice to not have so much bloat on your storage, but at least a 7-year old card doesn't need to play on low settings. Add on that AMD is reasonable too with Intel chilling at the fringes. Hopes are high for an affordable gaming pc market.

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  7. Got a 3080 myself. I usually play with RT off just for the dake of more immersive frame rates, but every once in a while, I uust like to flip on thr path tracing just to see how amazing it looks. Even if my system nearly catches fire in the process

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  8. 3070 user here
    Ray tracing ultra, DLSS quality, 1440p is totally playable but not fantastic (stutters do occur entering and exiting menus)..
    Path tracing though…
    PC took 10 seconds to "process" the screenshot i took.

    4080 and 4090 are insanely powerful cards… But the price absolutely is not justified.
    Maybe after next few generations come out, it would be worthwhile to upgrade.

    But glad you enjoy your new hardware… and increased power bill 😀

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  9. I am running path tracing with DLSS (quality), frame generation, at 3440×1440. I get about 95-120fps with lows at about 50fps. All other settings are maxed on ultra and psycho.

    I am shocked how well all of this works.

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  10. When Cyberpunk first launched, it wasn't working on my own PC for some reason (a patch soon sorted that), so my wife let me play it on her then brand-new 2080-equipped laptop. The difference between the game on her 2080 with raytracing and DLSS on vs my pc with a 1060 and none of that is very very noticeable. Raytracing on wet Night City streets looks amazing.

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  11. One thing to note is (as far as I know) this isn't "50fps" as the new DLSS version invents new frames in between so while it's reporting 50 it's more like 25 with real time in between frames generated between each one. Tbf to them it's pretty hard to notice difference vs actual 50fps but the latency is noticeable in faster paced stuff.
    Main time this is annoying is in benchmarks where it makes it look as though the nvidia cards can perform way better than they actually do, but guess if it close enough to being like that what's the difference.

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  12. Not buying the hype. Those wet roads didn't look like any wet road I've been on. I guess if you drive on obsidian or glass it might look similar? My 1st thought was you never drive on wet roads but, I remembered where you live and it like rains all the time there, right? Maybe you don't drive? I admit it makes a lot of things look very shiny… Oh look something shiny … I must have!

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  13. Since you were talking about proper terminology and grammar in several Mingles with Jingles videos, I though you should know that Path Tracing and Ray Tracing are not the same thing. But most people use the terms interchangeably, it just pisses off everyone that works with 3D graphics.
    You can add this comment to your list of "Actually Jingles" comments.

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  14. I bought a 4080 about a year ago now, whilst building my new computer (the old one was seven years old). Specifically, I built it to play the Dead Space remake at 60 on 2k at least, and I figured this would be enough.

    I still haven't played Dead Space, but I do notice improved frame rate in Bloons TD 6.

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