Ray Tracing Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 was already a visually impressive game, but the implementation of “Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode” takes things to a whole new level. This mode utilises path tracing, a form of full ray tracing, to render all lighting, reflections, and shadows with exceptional accuracy. This means every neon sign, streetlamp, headlight, and screen in Night City contributes to the illumination of the environment, creating a truly breathtaking and immersive experience. Ray-traced reflections bring the city’s rain-slicked streets and glass skyscrapers to life, while ray-traced shadows add depth and realism to every scene.
In Cyberpunk at 1440p, as expected, the 5090 comes in packing a punch as it leads the way with 25% more performance over the RTX 4090, though still is somewhat off the mark in the low figures, but I’m hopeful that can be fixed through driver updates and optimisations. It does mean that we now have 200% better performance than the 7900 XTX, though as that now sits 1 FPS below the RTX 4070, again, it’s more about AMD here, than NVIDIA as such.
4K sees a bigger uplift of 32%, now putting the 5090 at 45 FPS, which also puts it a staggering 275% ahead of AMD, though to get to that magical 60 FPS threshold, upscaling is going to be your friend in this title, and we’ll look at that soon.
