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Updated October 2026Engine v2026.10Game-Specific FPS Calculators

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS Calculator: Ray Tracing Overdrive, DLSS 4 & Frame Generation

Cyberpunk 2077 with RT Overdrive is the most demanding consumer workload in PC gaming — full path tracing over Night City. This preset locks the game’s demand profile and shows exactly what native raster, Ray Tracing Ultra, DLSS 4 and Frame Generation each buy (and cost) on your hardware.

This page covers cyberpunk 2077 fps calculator scenarios — including cyberpunk 2077 ray tracing overdrive fps, cyberpunk path tracing requirements — using the same estimation engine as the complete hardware FPS estimator. Prefer the wide view? Browse every tool in game-specific fps calculators.

Preset

Active preset — Cyberpunk 2077 FPS Calculator

Cyberpunk 2077 is locked to this page's demand profile — change your CPU, GPU, resolution and presets freely; the game stays put.

Step 1 — Configure Your System

Processor (CPU)

Graphics Card (GPU)

Video Game🔒 Locked preset

Target Resolution

Graphics Quality Preset

Advanced Tuning

Upscaling & Frame GenAI Frame Generation (On)DLSS FG / FSR 3 — multiplies output, adds input latency

System RAM

Storage Type

Laptop / Desktop ModeLaptop mode applies −20% GPU / −12% CPU power & thermal limitsDesktopLaptop

Step 2 — Live Estimate

Estimated Average FPS

Realistic range19–25 ·45.2 ms frame time

Estimated 1% Low

Worst-1% average — stutter line

Limiting Component

GPU-Bound

Min(CPU ceiling, GPU ceiling)

Ryzen 7 7800X3D + RTX 5070 Ti 16GB · Cyberpunk 2077 · 1440p (QHD) · Ray Tracing Ultra · DLSS / FSR Quality · 16GB DDR4-3200

Same Build, Other Resolutions (High preset)

Bottleneck Diagnostic

CPU frame ceiling179 FPS

GPU frame ceiling15 FPS

GPU-Bound (GPU 100% · CPU 9%) — the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB is the limiting component at 1440p (QHD). Lowering resolution, enabling DLSS/FSR, or dropping shader-heavy settings raises FPS.

Monitor Refresh Match

60Hz

— No

144Hz

— No

240Hz

— No

360Hz

— No

Base framerate is under ~45 FPS — frame generation engages at reduced benefit, because input latency and 1% lows degrade quickly below this line.

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Cyberpunk 2077 FPS Calculator — Specialized Panel

RT Overdrive ladder at your current resolution (1440p QHD) — Ultra preset as the raster anchor:

Scenario	Est. Avg	1% Low
RT Ultra native	22	17
RT Ultra + DLSS Quality	15	12
RT Ultra + DLSS Performance	11	9
RT Ultra + DLSS Perf + Frame Gen	15	10

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p — Native Ultra vs RT Ultra vs RT Ultra + DLSS Quality + FG (Ryzen 7 7800X3D)

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p — Native Ultra vs RT Ultra vs RT Ultra + DLSS Quality + FG (Ryzen 7 7800X3D)
Graphics Card	Native Ultra	RT Ultra Native	RT Ultra + DLSS Q + FG
RTX 5090 32GB	92	34	34
RTX 4090 24GB	78	29	28
RTX 5080 16GB	66	24	24
RX 9070 XT 16GB	63	23	21
RTX 5070 Ti 16GB	59	22	22
RTX 5070 12GB	50	18	19
RTX 4060 8GB	31	11	11

RT Overdrive is modeled with the engine’s heaviest ray-tracing multiplier (3.4×). Frame Generation uses the DLSS 3/4 FG multiplier with reduced benefit under a 45 FPS base.

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS Calculator: The Engineering Detail

Ray Tracing Overdrive: What Path Tracing Actually Does to a Frame

RT Overdrive replaces Cyberpunk’s hybrid lighting with full path tracing — every pixel’s light is traced through the scene with sampled bounces, denoised per frame. It’s a 3.4× multiplier over native Ultra in our model, which is why even an RTX 5090 needs upscaling to make it fluid at 4K.

BVH traversal cost scales with resolution — path tracing at 4K is ~2.7× the 1080p workload, before denoising.
Denoiser quality depends on sample count, which scales with frame budget: low FPS compounds into blur.
RT: Overdrive also raises VRAM pressure by 2–3GB — 8GB cards swap residency and stutter.
RT Ultra (the tier below Overdrive) keeps hybrid RT reflections/GI at a 2.4× multiplier — often the sweet spot.

Pro tip: if your RT Ultra native average lands under ~45 FPS, add DLSS Quality before touching Frame Generation — FG multiplies a stuttery base into a stuttery slideshow.

DLSS 4 and FSR 3.1: The Only Way Most GPUs See Night City Lit Properly

Upscaling reconstructs a higher-resolution image from fewer samples: Quality renders at 67% linear resolution, Performance at 50%. In pure shader terms that should be a ~2.2× gain at Quality; reconstruction overhead brings the real-world multiplier to ~1.4–2.05× across modes — exactly what our engine applies.

Transformer-model DLSS 4 holds detail notably better than CNN DLSS at Performance mode — thin neons and grilles survive reconstruction.
FSR 3.1 on RDNA cards trails DLSS by a small image-quality margin at Performance but the FPS math is identical.
Frame Generation stacks a further 1.65–1.9×, but adds ~one frame of latency and softens 1% lows — fine for cruising Night City, wrong for combat-heavy runs.
Below a ~45 FPS base, FG benefit halves in our model — the generated frames inherit the base frame’s pacing problems.

Pro tip: pair RT Ultra (not Overdrive) with DLSS Quality and FG for the best fidelity-per-millisecond on a 5070 Ti-class card — Overdrive’s extra cost is only worth it on x90-class silicon.

VRAM: The Hidden Cyberpunk Bottleneck

Cyberpunk at 1440p Ultra consumes 9–10GB; at 4K Ultra or RT Overdrive it pushes 12–14GB. Cards that run out of VRAM don’t just lose FPS — they lose frame-time consistency as textures stream over PCIe, which is why our engine penalizes under-buffered cards at high pixel counts.

8GB cards: playable at 1080p High native; avoid Ultra textures and any RT at 1440p+.
12GB is the practical RT floor at 1440p — 16GB removes the caveat entirely.
RT Overdrive’s extra buffers push 4K demand near 16GB; the 5080’s 16GB is exactly sized for it.
Ray Reconstruction (the path-tracing denoiser) adds its own residency — expect +1GB vs RT Ultra.

Pro tip: watch our VRAM warning line when you raise resolution or presets — it appears before the FPS number collapses, because residency thrash shows in 1% lows first.

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS Calculator — FAQs

Can my PC run Cyberpunk 2077 with Ray Tracing Overdrive?

Comfortably only on x90-class cards (4090/5090) or 5080/9070 XT with DLSS/FSR Performance. A 5070 Ti manages 1440p Overdrive with DLSS Quality plus Frame Generation around 60–75 FPS. Below that, RT Ultra with upscaling delivers 90% of the look at half the cost.

How much FPS does DLSS add in Cyberpunk 2077?

Roughly 1.42× at Quality, 1.72× at Balanced and 2.05× at Performance in our engine — e.g., a 5070 Ti goes from ~40 FPS RT Ultra native to ~82 FPS with DLSS Quality. Frame Generation then adds up to another 1.8× on RTX 40/50 cards.

Is Frame Generation worth it in Cyberpunk?

For exploration and driving, yes — it turns a 50 FPS base into ~90 with minimal downside. For combat-dense runs, the added latency and softened 1% lows are noticeable; our model halves FG’s benefit under a 45 FPS base to reflect that.

Why is my Cyberpunk FPS lower with RT on an 8GB card?

Two compounding reasons: RT Ultra/Overdrive adds 2–3GB of buffer pressure on top of Ultra textures, and once VRAM overflows, textures stream across PCIe — tanking 1% lows before averages. Drop texture quality to High and RT to the tier below, or move to 1440p upscaling.

What is a good FPS for Cyberpunk 2077?

60 FPS average with 1% lows above 45 is the single-player sweet spot; 100–120 with FG feels exceptional in this game because its pacing is cinematic rather than twitch. There’s no competitive reason to chase 240 — spend that headroom on path tracing instead.

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DLSS vs FSR FPS calculator →

Path tracing is only playable through upscaling — see exactly what each DLSS/FSR mode buys on your card.

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