Cyberpunk 2077 has seen major performance improvements since launch, but it remains one of the most demanding PC titles. The right settings depend entirely on your GPU β a configuration that runs beautifully on an RTX 4080 will be unplayable on an RTX 3060.
The GPU-Specific Problem With Generic Guides
Most Cyberpunk settings guides are written on high-end hardware and recommend settings like path tracing and DLSS Quality as defaults. On a mid-range GPU, these recommendations will give you 20β30 FPS. The settings that matter most are different at every hardware tier.
By GPU Tier
High-end (RTX 4080/4090, RX 7900 XTX):
- Path Tracing: On
- DLSS: Quality or Balanced
- Everything else: Psycho or Ultra
Mid-range (RTX 4070, RX 7800 XT):
- Ray Tracing: Medium (not path tracing)
- DLSS: Quality
- Crowds: Medium
- Volumetric Fog: Medium
- Screen Space Reflections: Off (use RT reflections instead)
Budget (RTX 3060, RX 6600 XT):
- Ray Tracing: Off
- FSR: Quality or Balanced
- Shadows: Medium
- Reflections: Medium
- Cascaded Shadows Range: Medium
Settings That Always Help Regardless of GPU
Film Grain β Off. Adds visual noise with no performance cost benefit.
Chromatic Aberration β Off. Same.
Depth of Field β Off unless you want the cinematic effect.
Motion Blur β Off for gameplay clarity.
Resolution Scaling
DLSS Quality mode renders at ~67% of your output resolution and upscales. At 1440p this means rendering at ~960p. In Cyberpunk 2077, DLSS Quality is genuinely close to native in motion β the performance gain justifies it at every GPU tier.
FSR Quality works on all GPUs including AMD and Intel. It is slightly softer than DLSS but the performance gain is real.
Community Settings by Hardware
Players using specific GPUs have submitted their dialled-in configurations at BestSettingsFor.com/games/cyberpunk-2077. You can filter by GPU to see what other people on the same hardware are running.
