Cyberpunk 2077 patch delivers DLSS 3 ahead of painstakingly extreme ray tracing mode
DLSS 3 support should give us a bit of headroom when it comes to ray tracing performance.
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I’ve seen a few friends crawling back toCyberpunk 2077this year, after a somewhat rocky start. Now, with the latest DLSS 3 patch, the frame destroying monster of a game that is Cyberpunk 2077 should see some serious performance enhancements, helped along by Nvidia’s AI frame generation technology—how apt.
Yep, Cyberpunk 2077 has just received DLSS 3 support. Improvements include AI network enhancements for DLSS Frame Generation, which should lead to a better handle on the game engine data. Though note that frame rate-enhancing feature is exclusive to RTX 40-series GPUs. The patch also promises improved UI stability, and smoother image quality when you’re speeding down the road on yourYaiba Kusanagi CT-3X.
We’ve seen a few games gettingDLSS 3 supportrecently. Now with DLSS 3 for Cyberpunk 2077, you should also be able to switch the ray tracing setting up from the currentPsycho modeintoOverdrive mode—a new setting coming with an inbound game update at a later date—withouttoomuch of a performance impact.
That’s the hope at least.
By Nvidia’s reckonings, you should be able to achieve 138 fps at 4K with anRTX 4090installed in your rig. As for theRTX 4080, that sits closer to 102 fps.
Of course, we’ll believe it when we see it. It sure looks like DLSS 3 is making new extreme game modes a possibility in a game not famed for being particularly tough on graphics cards, though. Turning it on was one of our main suggestions when we went through thebest settings for Cyberpunk 2077, and now DLSS 3 has graced the neon streets of Night City it might be even easier to hit a genuinely high fps in-game.
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