Cyberpunk 2077 is a real mine of … money? Having fun? Bugów? Memów? It all depends on the perspective, but for editorial offices such as PurePC it is primarily a great material for hardware tests. So first I checked the performance of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, then the implementation of ray tracing and DLSS, but now I targeted processors and RAM. Today, a dozen or so popular models will face each other, which will show how Cyberpunk 2077 scales with cores and the threads that the unit requires to keep it flowing. I will also show why it is worth investing in faster RAM memory. Get up samurai, we have a lot of charts to analyze …

Author: Sebastian Oktaba

During the performance tests of graphics cards, I mentioned many times that Cyberpunk 2077 also requires a sufficiently powerful processor to avoid the occurrence of so-called. bottleneck phenomena. Bottelenck on the processor side causes painful drops in liquidity despite having an efficient graphics system, which could be experienced especially by people with monitors with resolution 1920 x 1080 and AMD processors (an explanation of this ailment is part of the publication). By the way – the forecasts I made based on the pre-release version of Cyberpunk 2077 turned out to be correct – the production he really likes multi-core units. Of course, to say one thing, but to show another, that’s why this publication takes into account popular AMD and Intel processors. However, conducting the measurements required taking into account several factors, because Cyberpunk 2077 had problems with the correct operation of the models AMD Ryzen built on a single CCD module. The problem turned out to be very acute and will be described on the following pages, but the community quickly (!) Created the hotfix on its own, which was officially introduced in patch 1. 05.

Processor tests in Cyberpunk 2077 was not a simple and fast job , but eventually a list of several popular models was created. Everything was done on the ACTINA PBA platforms with RTX 3080.

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Cyberpunk computer game performance test 2077 – What are the hardware requirements? Test of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards

Both test platforms were provided by the company ACTINA, the basic specification of which can be found in the table below. Manufacturer as recommended processors for Cyberpunk 2077 Indeed, it indicated AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and Intel Core i7 – 6700, even to the most advanced modes, although as you will see soon it was just a reasonable mini mum. ACTIBA PBA computers (Powered by ASUS) have the top Intel Core i9 units – 10900 and AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X, which are combined with the high-performance ASUS GeForce RTX graphics card 3080 TUF Gaming ensure comfortable gameplay even in the resolution 3840 x 2160 and High Settings. Of course, the processors were rotated during testing, the LGA platform 1151 also required motherboard replacement, otherwise the comparison would be very limited. In addition, I allowed myself to crank up the Patriot RAM to 3600 MHz CL 16 – 16 – 16 – 36. A similar procedure was performed by ASUS GeForce RTX 3080 TUF Gaming, whose factory clocks were raised to the maximum (120 MHz GPU / MHz VRAM). The rest of the hardware platform was identical, not of any importance in the context of processor performance tests.

	Intel’s ACTINA PBA Platform	AMD ACTINA PBA Platform
Processor	Intel Core i9 – 10900	AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X
Motherboard	ASUS Prime Z 490 M-Plus	ASUS TUF Gaming B 550 M-Plus
Graphics Card	ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming	ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming
RAM	16 GB Patriot Viper 4 Blackout 3600 CL 17	16 GB Patriot Viper 4 Blackout 3600 CL 17
SSD	Crucial MX 500 1 TB SATA	Crucial MX 500 1 TB SATA
Power Supply	be quiet! Straight Power 11 850 In	be quiet! Straight Power 11 850 In
Cooling	SilentiumPC Grandis 3	SilentiumPC Grandis 3
Housing	ASUS TUF Gaming GT 301	ASUS TUF Gaming GT 301
Price	–	9879 zlotys

Cyberpunk CPU tests 2077 turned out to be extremely tiring, which is of course due to the programmers’ mishaps. Intel models behaved correctly from the beginning, the load on the cores and threads was correct, but AMD Ryzen worked below their capacity. This mainly concerned variants with one CCD module, where the SMT technique (the Intel’s HT equivalent) simply did not work. The use of threads was lower, bottleneck and stuttering appeared. So an unofficial hotfix was created, which actually did wonders – Ryzens with one CCD regained their condition, but models with two could lose performance. It therefore required checking ALL AMD Ryzen processors in variant hotfix ON / OFF , regardless of the official corrections (I trust the rule, but check). I also checked the editing of the memory_pool_budgets.csv file, although opinions about the effectiveness of assigning other values ​​for PoolCPU and PoolGPU are divided and I personally did not notice the change in favor. Overall, the graphs show you the best results for each CPU achieved with file modifications and / or the latest patch 1. 05.

Cyberpunk 2077 PC – Performance test of graphics cards in ray tracing and DLSS. What do you need to play ultra? Ray tracing does not yet work on Radeons