Your PC is all powerful but can it run Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive mode?
Launched way back in 2007, Crysis instantly became the standard by which all PC games hardware was measured, routinely bringing the very fastest graphics cards to their knees. «But can it run Crysis» was the only measure that mattered. Kinda.
Well, move over Crysis, there's a new GPU crusher in town. We give you Cyberpunk 2077's RT Overdrive mode(opens in new tab).
Out on April 11th, Nvidia's recent demo video shows the new path-traced mod for Cyberpunk positively annihilating the mighty RTX 4090(opens in new tab) graphics card. Running at 4K native resolution and the path-tracing eye candy set to full reheat, the 4090 is tanking down to 16 frames per second.
Ouch. Imagine running it on, say, an old RTX 2060 (opens in new tab)or, arguably worse, something low-end based on AMD's older RDNA 2 graphics architecture(opens in new tab) with its relatively weedy hardware ray tracing support. Low single-digit frame rates, anyone?
If you're wondering why Nvidia would want to show its finest graphics card taking such a brutal mauling, well, that 16 fps isn't the whole story. Nvidia also showcases the RTX 4090 running the new RT Overdrive mode with DLSS enabled.
And wouldn't you know it, the frame rate leaps up to around 130 fps. Ker-ching! Nvidia doesn't go into a lot of details. So we don't know what DLSS quality setting is being used, but we assume that frame generation must be in the mix.
Whatever, it's one heck of a leap in performance. That said, our own Andy Chalk isn't convinced the new path-tracing mode necessarily looks better(opens in new tab). It's pretty heavy on the halos and blooming with bright objects, implying that some aspects of the rendering have been cranked right up to achieve visual impact for the sake of
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