Cyberpunk 2077’s NVIDIA DLSS 3 Update Is Out Now, Multiplying Performance | GeForce News
CD PROJEKT RED’s Cyberpunk 2077 is already one of the most advanced games available, using several ray tracing techniques to render a dense future city at incredible levels of detail. And today, Cyberpunk 2077 adds performance-accelerating NVIDIA DLSS 3 to its arsenal of cutting-edge technologies. See it in action in our new DLSS 3 performance comparison video:
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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 will arrive on the scene in just a few days’ time, and I’ve been putting the entry-level option through its paces ahead of launch. Now, I don’t want to say I deliberately make the latest graphics cards sweat like some GPU torturer, but I am partial to a Cyberpunk 2077 Night City jaunt, as it helps keep benchmarking interesting. If my latest night out on the dystopian town has hammered home anything, it’s that DLSS 3 is somewhat invaluable, and it’s going to elevate your budget PC gaming experience in a big way.
Of course, if you’re a seasoned gaming PC enthusiast who already owns the best graphics card available, you’re probably already aware of DLSS. However, if you’ve got a cheap and cheerful rig and you’re planning on diving into Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty when it lands, you’re perhaps not even aware that AI upscaling could be the key to better performance.
Before we dive into my experience playing Cyberpunk 2077 with an RTX 4060, it’s probably worth recapping what Nvidia DLSS actually is. In a way, it’s multiple proprietary GeForce tools smooshed into one, but the package mainly comprises clever artificial intelligence tech. Don’t worry, rather than using something like ChatGPT to mess around with your gaming PC settings, Nvidia instead uses machine learning to boost fps beyond your GPUs natural capabilities.
That’s not to say all versions of the GeForce tool are equal, as while all RTX cards are DLSS 2 compatible, DLSS 3 is an RTX 4000 exclusive. The difference? Well, the latest version boasts Frame Generation, a feature that effectively boosts fps by filling in the gaps with generated frames, and AI upscaling, while DLSS 2 sticks with dynamic upscaling using lower resolutions. Both are pretty great at uplifting performance without too many caveats, but it’s clear to see the benefits of Frame Generation while playing Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p.
To help illustrate exactly what I mean ahead of our Nvidia RTX 4060 review, Nvidia has granted me permission to take you to Night City a few days early using the upcoming GPU. It’s worth mentioning that the 60-series card caters to 1080p gameplay with Ultra settings enabled, so the graphics card maker has suggested we use the following settings:
- Ambient Occlusion: High
- Anisotropy: 16
- Cascaded Shadows Range: High
- Cascaded Shadows Resolution: High
- Color Precision: High
- Contact Shadows: On
- Depth of Field: On
- Distant Shadows Resolution: High
- Improved Facial Lighting Geometry: On
- Level of Detail: High
- Local Shadow Mesh Quality: High
- Max Dynamic Decals: Ultra
- Mirror Quality: High
- DLSS: Balanced
- Ray Traced Lighting: Ultra
- Ray Traced Reflections: On
- Ray Traced Shadows: On
- Ray Tracing: On
- Screen Space Reflections Quality: Ultra
- Subsurface Scattering Quality: High
- Texture Quality: High
- Volumetric Cloud Quality: Ultra
- Volumetric Fog Resolution: Ultra
I want to kick off this comparison by saying that DLSS 2 does an admirable job of boosting fps with the above settings. After all, Cyberpunk 2077 is notoriously difficult to run, and throwing ultra-ray tracing into the mix makes for a heavy workload. Still, just adding Super Sampling to the settings concoction results in average frame rates of around 67fps – a comfortable figure that wouldn’t be achievable without dialing back some of the game’s tasty visuals. I’ve included a short clip below I captured during testing, which should help you judge the results for yourself.
But hey, you’re not here for tricks your RTX 3060 can pull off, so here’s a peek at DLSS 3 and Frame Generation in action. As you can see in the next clip, the RTX 4060 is able to reach over 100fps by filling in the frame rate gaps with no visual strings attached. You may struggle to tell by watching the gameplay snippet but toggling the setting on makes controlling V feel a hell of a lot smoother too – a factor that’ll please any of you out there with a high refresh rate monitor.
As someone that’s spent a lot of time in new PC games trying to conjure up ways to boost fps, I can confirm that even clawing back one or two frames is no easy feat. Sure, you can mess around with shadows, lighting, and other visual bells and whistles to speed things up, but you’ll ultimately find that you need you crank things way down low to yield better results. So, even though the feature helps GPUs like the one in our RTX 4090 review reach far greater heights, I’m still fairly impressed by the above entry-level results.
Look, I get it, some of you out there aren’t really interested in playing PC games at 1080p in 2023, and I get why you’d want to perhaps aim for 1440p or 4K. That said, if you are eager to trade away visual flair for higher resolutions, I reckon you should look at the above figures as an opportunity rather than a restriction. No one is forcing you to stick with the settings used above, and switching off ray tracing might just serve as an equivalent exchange (insert FullMetal Alchemist joke here).
Again, Cyberpunk 2077 is a bit of a demanding bugger, and Frame Generation enables the RTX 4060 to pull off big 1080p moves. It’s important to reiterate that DLSS 3 is only compatible with a small selection of games right now, so you’ll definitely want to wait for a full review for native benchmarks across a wider selection of games. Nevertheless, If you’re hyped for Phantom Liberty and deliberating on whether to make the leap to entry-level Lovelace, perhaps this early performance glimpse will come in useful.
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3DNews Software News Cyberpunk 2077 shooter gets support from NVIDIA… The most interesting in the reviews
01/31/2023 [18:38], Dmitry Rud Developers CD Projekt RED and NVIDIA announced that the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 action RPG has received an update with support for DLSS 3 scaling technologies and NVIDIA Reflex response time optimization.
Image source: AztroZero According to NVIDIA, with DLSS 3 enabled, Cyberpunk 2077 performance at 4K resolution on the RTX 4090 graphics card rises to 138 fps (up to 3. Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling must be enabled on the PC for DLSS frame generation to work. How to activate it in Windows 10 (in Windows 11 it is done by default), see the CDPR website.
DLSS 3 integrates Optical Frame Generation, Super Resolution DLSS and NVIDIA Reflex (Image Source: CD Projekt RED) As promised, Cyberpunk 2077 received support for an updated version of DLSS 3, which includes improvements to DLSS frame generation, Super Resolution technology, and DLAA anti-aliasing. DLSS 3 is only available to owners of RTX 40-series graphics cards, but the Super Resolution and DLAA improvements mentioned will also appear on NVIDIA’s past generations of graphics cards, including RTX 20-series and 30-series.
It was previously reported that the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 will receive support for the Ray Tracing: Overdrive mode with more advanced ray tracing at the same time as DLSS 3, but the update is being delayed. Cyberpunk 2077 is out on PC (Steam, GOG, EGS), PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S. Phantom Liberty is coming to PC and current generation consoles this year. A sequel, codenamed Orion, is also in development. Sources:
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Cyberpunk 2077 received an update with DLSS 3.0, which increases FPS by 3 times. Comparison of graphics and FPS with ray tracing
Cyberpunk 2077 is getting state-of-the-art NVIDIA DLSS 3. 0 technology. Game performance can be easily improved if you have a GeForce RTX 40 graphics card
Another update has been released for Cyberpunk 2077. Users are gradually analyzing the CD Projekt RED game, which has become a little more technologically advanced. The game received support for DLSS 3.0 and Nvidia Reflex.
NVIDIA decided to show the power of DLSS 3.0 technology in action. We compared Cyberpunk 2077 and FPS graphics without DLSS 3.0 and without tracing with DLSS 3.0 and RT enabled.
DLSS 3.0 technology made it possible to get an average of 3 times more FPS in Cyberpunk 2077.
Far from all fans of Cyberpunk 2077 will be able to evaluate the DLSS 3.0 technology in action, since this is an exclusive for GeForce RTX 40-series video cards.
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