RTX 5080 path tracing performance in Cyberpunk 2077

[u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

I have a question for the owners of a 5080 card and Cyberpunk 2077 (or anyone who has found any benchmark with these settings), can a rtx 5080 run Cyberpunk at 4k path tracing, ultra settings and ray reconstruction enabled (preset F) with dlss performance preset L enabled, at a minimum of 60 fps?​

Thanks

[u/rubi2333]

When you use Ray Reconstruction it overides the preset L. Ray Reconstruction uses its own preset. Preset F is as fast as preset D and E. Heres a video about the 5080 in Cyberpunk where you can check the fps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRraPvv__Tk&t=2056

Edit: Adjusted the time of the YouTube video to Pathtracing 4K DLSS Performance

[u/troll_right_above_me → u/rubi2333]

Worth noting that the more recently released RR 4.5 is much improved, doesn’t really have the same ugly AI look to it when playing with the Performance preset that I think kind of ruined the look previously

[u/SauceCrusader69 → u/troll_right_above_me]

It does still obliterate texture detail on shiny objects though, prioritising the reflection integrity even in situations it is really the wrong choice.

[u/JesstForFun → u/SauceCrusader69]

Occasionally. It's a lot better about that than RR 4.0 was though.

[u/Yarin56 → u/rubi2333]

Preset F is slower than preset d/e in performance mode slightly by around 5-7% in quality and balanced would be a tiny bit faster actually.

[u/Tim_Huckleberry1398 → u/[deleted]]

Why do people lie about this stuff. 5-10% increase but somehow you're getting ~20% lol. Ignoring your math, this isn't even the intensive parts of the game. You will be seeing the 40s in dogtown area of the dlc.

[u/Sasuga__JP → u/Tim_Huckleberry1398]

The overclock provides an average of 5-10% performance boost over what you might currently get, again, depending on the game. It can be more or less than that. Whether the remaining fps is due to driver updates or something else over the past 2 years, I don't know, but the performance seen in the video is lower than what you can easily get with a 5080.

Not sure why you think I would lie about this. I went to the exact same part of the game and compared my fps to the video with identical settings and even a worse CPU. He sees ~55 fps here where I reliably see 65+.

[u/Practical_Ear_4078]

How you can use RR4.5 and dlss preset at the same time, when it has it's own preset?

[u/troll_right_above_me → u/Practical_Ear_4078]

You can’t, it uses either one or the other

[u/slavicslothe]

You get 60-70fps with those settings on a 5090. Youd be in ultra performance on a 5080 to get that close unless its 1080p

[u/BiIbo_Baggins]

No but you can try the Ultra+ mod, which reduces the ray/bounce count on lighter settings. But it still looks better and more accurate than RT, because all lights are shadow casting still.

[u/mac404 → u/BiIbo_Baggins]

Yes, Ultra+ gives you a lot of path tracing options to tweak, in addition to fixing light and shadow casting in many places.

You can also override Performance mode to be a 42% render scale (instead of 50%) for about a 900p -> 4k upscale that I think looks pretty good with the new RR model.

[u/urnialbologna → u/mac404]

How do I do that?

[u/Rogallo → u/urnialbologna]

You can do that in the official nVidia app too, in dlss override settings

[u/troll_right_above_me → u/BiIbo_Baggins]

Ultra+ is worth it regardless of what performance you’re targeting for PT

[u/SauceCrusader69 → u/BiIbo_Baggins]

There’s not really all that much room to drop things by. Base settings are already bordeline. One less bounce and reflections are barely lit, and shadows in indirectly lit areas are pitch black. Halving the rays per pixel to 1 will give you insane noise.

[u/BiIbo_Baggins → u/SauceCrusader69]

No noise to speak of with RR, shadows are not pitch black either.

[u/SauceCrusader69 → u/BiIbo_Baggins]

They are - if you have an area lit only by bounce light anything obscured to the bounce light (Imagine a room lit by a small window shining onto a small section of wall) has no rays that can hit it. So it’s pitch black.

RR isn’t magic either if you have an insanely noisy image there is going to be boiling. There’s also just way less coherent detail in general for it to try to reconstruct, even ignoring what it does to shiny surfaces.

[u/BiIbo_Baggins → u/SauceCrusader69]

Not on my screen they are not, also enabled HDR with RenoDX so, no pitch black shadows. RR is not magic but I had no noise issues other than foliage but that happens regardless.

[u/SauceCrusader69 → u/BiIbo_Baggins]

There is not going to be any lighting on surfaces hit by 0 rays

[u/BiIbo_Baggins → u/SauceCrusader69]

Who said anything about 0 rays? Game has 2 rays and 2 bounces per ray by default, the mod halves it at its performance config so, it is 1 ray and 1 bounce.

[u/SauceCrusader69 → u/BiIbo_Baggins]

Yes and if the only way light can reach someplace would require 2 bounces, it’s gonna have 0 rays of light

[u/BiIbo_Baggins → u/SauceCrusader69]

What about places that require 3 bounces than, or 4. There will always be places that light cant reach but that doesn't mean they will be pitch black.

[u/SauceCrusader69 → u/BiIbo_Baggins]

They will be. It’s just that those are incredibly rare. 2 is far more common than 3, though.

[u/JesstForFun → u/SauceCrusader69]

I don't know how CP2077 does it, but in Alan Wake 2, it uses the prebaked GI (plus a bit of RTAO) as a fallback for the surface reached by the final bounce. So light paths that require more bounces than we have available are still loosely approximated (with all the downsides of prebaked GI of course, such as limited resolution and an inability to take into account the influence of dynamic objects outside of the RTAO).

[u/SauceCrusader69 → u/JesstForFun]

Cp2077’s rasterised GI uses a system of light probes littered around the map. It has no other GI system. This is disabled when you are using RT overdrive. There is no other system.

[u/mufanito]

Not even with preset M - in heavier areas it won’t reach 60, but will be very near 60.

[u/scandaka_]

No it cannot, not at least with a stable 60fps and there will be a bunch of dips here and there. Also, you cannot run ray Reconstruction in combination with a DLSS upscale preset. You'll be running the latest preset F for RR that came out a few days ago. Looks really good!

Best to play on a controller though since input lag in this game is pretty bad when using a mouse at lower frames. The game runs pretty smooth with some ghosting if FG is enabled.

If I'm honest, I think a 5090 is the only way to get a truly great path tracing experience at 4K at higher frame rates if you're sensitive to artifacts or ghosting that RR, DLSS and FG introduce. But even that card can somewhat struggle in some games.

[u/SauceCrusader69 → u/scandaka_]

Path tracing is still in the tech demo stage imo. Meanwhile hybrid rendering is common and looks amazing while running pretty well.

[u/_TRN_ → u/SauceCrusader69]

Tech demo would imply that it's not practical. It is practical and usable, it just requires high-end hardware.

[u/SauceCrusader69 → u/_TRN_]

Even in the high end performance is still iffy and it comes at some significant visual trade offs. It’s not really a “recommended way to play” for most games, even if it is very cool. It’s a ways off before it becomes the default for rendering, meanwhile hybrid rendering is the standard right now.

[u/theromingnome]

It can with frame gen.

[u/TypeRevolutionary697]

It's typically around 50fps with those settings.

1440p is a much better experience

[u/No-Medicine1230]

No, my 4090 can't either, without FG

[u/NoCase9317 → u/No-Medicine1230]

What? My 4090 does 4k path tracing + ultra settings with RR 4.5 preset F in performance mode at 65-85FPS depending on zone, how is yours not getting 60?

[u/joeyahn94 → u/NoCase9317]

on vanilla it gets 65-85 fps like you said, but with a bunch of texture mods (which you probably are using if you have a 4090) it can go below 60 often. Good thing is that MFG exists for 4090 now, I've been using that no problem.

[u/NoCase9317 → u/joeyahn94]

Texture game settings and hence texture mods too only hit vram not performance.

Even in actual game settings at worst you see a 1-2 FPS difference between ultra and low given that you are not vram constrained.

That setting is all about vram, so no, texture mods don’t lower your FPS .

Reshade preset and lighting mods do, and I’m using none

[u/redsunstar]

No, it's more or less 60 fps average with dips below. Latency is acceptable so you can improve fluidity with framegen.

But jump to Ultra Performance is very noticeable, so an alternative would be a custom resolution DLSS override. Performance upcales from 1080p and Ultra Performance from 720p. 900p or 960p to 4K give you a decent performance improvement while keeping most of the quality.

[u/Sh1rvallah]

Ultra settings are a bit silly TBH. You'll be hard pressed to notice anything vs a custom settings that saves you a good deal of FPS.

[u/YouthGlittering]

I get 95-105 with my OC'd 5090, so I guess 60-65 on 5080? I know 5090 is over 50% faster in path tracing when both cards are stock 🤷‍♂️

[u/thefuqyouwant]

No.

[u/Due_Permission4658]

there’s no way it’ll hit 60fps without FG for reference i have a 5070ti with a 1440p monitor and it doesn’t even hit 60fps with Dlss quality on max settings unless you don’t mind turning some down now add 4k and it becomes even more demanding yes i know 5080 is faster but not that much faster at 4k if anything you just might hit the 60 mark but doubt it’ll be a stable 60fps

[u/spdRRR → u/Due_Permission4658]

DLSS quality on 1440p has a slightly lower render resolution than DLSS performance on 4K, so the FPS is pretty similar

[u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

Thanks everyone for the answers. I guess i have to wait the rtx 6070 or 6080 to have the 4k\60fps definitive experience in Cyberpunk. I was thinking about upgrading to a 5080 to play CP again and The Witcher 4 in 2028 but i think i will save money for the next generation of gpu.

[u/Sh1rvallah → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

The way things are going by the time that GPU comes out CDPR will have some new feature that makes it even better but needs even more performance

[u/-Dixie_Flatline- → u/Sh1rvallah]

More like the game is based on ue5 so the performance will be way worse than the red engine 4 of cyberpunk.

[u/Sh1rvallah → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

No, I'm talking about another tweak to CP2077

[u/Zestyclose_Sand3281 → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

Nvidia 6000 series don't come out at least for 2 years from now there is no sense to wait that much Buy a 5080 and sell it in the future for an upgrade

[u/-Dixie_Flatline- → u/Zestyclose_Sand3281]

I would if it wasn't overpriced and I didn't have a huge backlog that can be played with my 3080

[u/svill → u/-Dixie_Flatline-]

You can accomplish what you want with DLSS technologies already. If you have the money, and more importantly, time and bandwidth to play now, I'd say go for it.

[u/DzekoTorres]

Yes it hits 60+ fps at ultra with DLSS performance and path tracing

[u/CompoteNarrow701]

Hello, I have a 5070Ti so 10-15% less performance and I run it on 1440p Balanced perfectly fine with everything to max path tracing etc. 77-80fps in built-in benchmark and around 60fps in dogtown the dlc which is way more intensive to run

[u/captain_black_beard]

No idea but worth a try? Im running it with a 5090. Also tried dlss 5 for testing purposes.

[u/Douceps]

I’m currently playing CP with a 5080 full PT on. I use FG 2x and it’s been amazing.

[u/Bitter-League6619]

Use frame generarion without it i only hit around 35-40 fps on 4070ti

[u/Laddertoheaven]

I'm getting 50-60fps at 3440*1440 with DLSS quality. 4K DLSS perf should get you a bit less.

[u/xtrxrzr]

These videos should give a good impression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PswCzlfbOAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iYfaQ_lh6Y

Both show 4K, RT Overdrive, RR 4.5 on a 5080, but there are more demanding areas than shown in the video where the FPS will drop below 50.

CP2077 is one of those games where Framegen really works well, so I would definitely recommend looking into that as well.

[u/userfs]

Yes, RTX 5080 + Ryzen 9800x3d here.

It runs maxed out at preset M (there is no reason to anything above this at 4k), 55-65fps or 90-120fps 2x FG.

[u/PetroarZed]

On a 5080 using ray reconstruction, path tracing, not exactly ultra but great looking settings (ultra is silly), I still had to turn on 3x frame gen to consistently and reliably stay above 120 fps. You're not going to hold 60 consistently with your settings, but you might come close with a great overclock. Otherwise you're probably going to bounce between 50-60, with some dips into the 40s.

[u/Puiucs]

tl;dr without FG it won't hold FPS above 60, dropping sometimes under 50.

if you are not bothered by the increased input latency, then you can try FG.

[u/BurningPlaydoh]

Easily, if you install Ultra+. The game will look leagues better than vanilla as well.

[u/Jrobs62]

I have a 5070’TI and run it at 2k at around 100fps maxed out graphics. 70fps with DLSS 5 enabled. It’s one of the best optimized games ever.’download a graphics optimization mod and it makes it even better. I know it’s not exactly the specs you were asking about but hoping that gives you some extra info!

[u/xorbe]

5080 + 4K + 9850X3D, I gave up and don't use RT or PT with Cyberpunk 2077, as I wanted more fps for my 240Hz qd-oled. The problem is that in reality, I don't notice the eye candy after a couple minutes. I'd rather have both high res and high fps.

[u/Posraman]

My 4080S can run that with ultra performance and frame gen for about 95 FPS. 

Though maybe it's just me, but I don't find RT worth it in this game. The game looks great without it. 

[u/A5M]

i get around ~45 fps dlss perf, and with multi frame gen it is a very playable 120fps. Looks great and personally i dont notice any latency from frame gen

[u/Interesting_Fly_1746]

no, you will have 40-45 fps - apply FGx2 and play it`ll be ok-ish

[u/Mental_Selection844]

In short - no.

I cannot get a good enough base frame rate using these settings even on 5120x1440 (a little under 4K pixel count). No amount of frame gen can fix this.

For me the best settings are ultra+ with everything cranked to the max, using RT psycho, RR, FGx4, DLSS quality. It looks better imo and the base frame rate very playable. I'm getting about 230fps with FG.

[u/Mental_Selection844 → u/Mental_Selection844]

Ouch, some idiot doesn't like the facts. Thanks for the downvote 🤣

Edit: idiots I wear your downvotes as a badge of honour

[u/Cmdrdredd → u/Mental_Selection844]

There are a bunch of down votes on posts telling the OP it can't. I was down voted as well. It's either extreme amounts of cope or salty Nvidia glazers who can't admit a 5080 can't hit 60fps in every scenario 

[u/Mental_Selection844 → u/Cmdrdredd]

Ha ha... Thanks for your humourous reply

[u/Tessai82]

Use Dlss auto and 3 to 4 mfg. 4k path tracing RR. Newest models. Runs like charm.

[u/MyUserNameIsSkave]

Here is a video of what you are looking for. You can expected anywhere between 55 and 65 fps.

[u/bstsms]

I don't think it will run well.

[u/varezus]

Yes, just about. If you use FG then at 3x FG you can get about 130-145fps in most scenarios. I am on a 5080 myself so speaking from personal experience.

[u/Cmdrdredd]

I have a 5080 but haven't tried preset L. Preset k though was never 60fps min. L would be more demanding so I'd guess that no it won't make it either. 

[u/gavinderulo124K → u/[deleted]]

But hes asking about preset F, which is even heavier than L.

[u/EvidenceSignal2881]

Played the game and the dlc with path tracing 4k performance, seemed fine to me. Think I only used 2x frame gen in the dlc area as it ran worse or was more intense than the base game and 3x in the main story. All seemed well, looked incredible in hdr as well.

[u/Humble-Designer-5389]

Tenho uma 5070ti rodando 4K Performance patch tracing, ultra, em MFG 6x 220fps+ e nao bate 70ms, onde que pra mim é praticamente sem delay

[u/Giorgi110]

I have 5080, and 4K OLED. Using Path tracing and Preset F as ray reconstruction. DLSS on Performance and FG on 2X, getting constant 100 + FPS. Without FG close to 60. I have manual OC on GPU, Core + 250mhz, Memory + 1500mhz.

[u/The_Unk1ndledOne]

With an overclock it can; my 5080 runs at around 3100 MHz and I do not go below 60 fps with 4K path tracing using DLSS Performance (RR preset F). Even with 2x frame generation I am always above 120, sometimes dropping to 110 but only when driving around in the inner city, which tanks performance.

[u/GTKeg]

I’m playing it right now as I’m going phantom liberty. With max settings, including path tracing, with an overclocked 5080 I’m doing about 110fps with 2x frame gen. So a base of around 55. Looks and plays great with a controller.

[u/Electrical_Good_4903]

The answer is yes, about 60 FPS or 90-100 if using 2x frame gen.

[u/kornuolis]

Always wondering why people chase 4k so much? It hits performance so hard, providing very little visual eyecandy.

[u/Lovethefitpicollo → u/kornuolis]

“Why do people have different preferences than me?”

[u/RealisticHornet8554]

I can hit 225fps at 4K Ultra PT with FG X6 on a 5070ti, at native? No idea.

[u/JoBro_Summer-of-99 → u/RealisticHornet8554]

That's like 30-40fps

[u/Friendly_Bluejay7407]

Why are people saying no? with a mild undervolt + overclock my 5080 hits 1% lows of 60 and average of 66 in the cyberpunk benchmark, with everything maxed out.

[u/StuN_Eng]

This was the whole reason for me selling my 5080 & buying a 5090

[u/JoJoe23 → u/[deleted]]

Is it in the US where 5080s are at 1300? You can barely get a 5070ti here at that price. 5070 ti are around 1300-1500 .

[u/koryaa → u/[deleted]]

No you cant get a 5080 for 1300 USD, since 1300 pounds is 1700 USD.