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Best Settings To Play Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p

By / Cyberpunk 2077, Tech / July 21, 2025

Here are the optimal settings for playing Cyberpunk at 1080p, with or without ray tracing, on GPUs with up to 8GB of VRAM and beyond.

Best Settings To Play Cyberpunk at 1080p
An image from within the game (Image via CD Projekt RED)

Cyberpunk 2077, released in 2020, is notoriously difficult to run on older systems. With path tracing enabled, a few GPUs, such as the RTX 4090 and RTX 5090, can achieve native 1080p 60FPS in the base game. That said, if you are playing the Phantom Liberty DLC, you too can expect frame drops. The settings below apply to GPU performance tiers starting from the RTX 4070 and above, covering both rasterization and ray tracing settings.

Note: The latest patch updates Cyberpunk to utilize FSR 4 for AMD RDNA 4 GPUs. The recent driver updates from AMD (RDNA 4) have caught up to Nvidia in terms of ray tracing. You can apply the RT settings mentioned here for Nvidia GPUs directly to RDNA 4 cards without issue.

Cyberpunk 2077: Best Settings for 1080p

Cyberpunk Settings page
An image showing Cyberpunk Settings page (Image via CD Projekt RED)

A few keynotes to consider:

  • Use your preferred upscaling algorithm, such as DLSS/FSR/XeSS. Xess will result in more shimmering than FSR. As for DLSS, the transformer model incurs a greater performance hit, but this can be mitigated by using an aggressive upscaling profile.
  • Use Steam overlay and monitor VRAM usage. Avoid using Frame Generation on GPUs with less than 12GB of VRAM.
  • If you are using RT, then you need CPU performance comparable to that of a 12400F or an I7-13700 K, depending on your GPU choice, ranging from the RTX 1660 Ti to the RTX 4070/ and beyond.
  • AMD Users, with GPUs that do not support FSR 4, stick with FSR 2.1 or use the OptiScaler mod for the best FSR implementation.

Best Settings Explored

SettingWithout RT (Raster, e.g., ~8GB VRAM GPUs)With RT (e.g., 12GB+ VRAM, RTX 4070+)
Display and Scaling  
Resolution1920×10801920×1080
Maximum FPSOffOff
V-syncOff Off 
DLSS/FSR/XeSSQuality (or Balanced for performance)Quality
DLSS Frame GenerationOff (unless 12GB+ VRAM)On (Optional)
DLSS Ray ReconstructionOn (if Nvidia)On (if Nvidia)
NVIDIA DLAAOffOn (if Nvidia)
Quality  
Texture QualityMedium/HighHigh
Field of View70-8570-85
Depth of Field(Optional)(Optional)
Improved Facial Lighting Geometry(Optional)(Optional)
Contact ShadowsOffOn
Anisotropy16x16x
Local Shadow Mesh QualityHighHigh
Local Shadow QualityHighHigh
Cascaded Shadow RangeMediumMedium
Cascaded Shadow ResolutionMediumMedium
Distant Shadows ResolutionMediumMedium
Volumetric Fog ResolutionMediumMedium
Max Dynamic DecalsHighHigh
Screen Space Reflections QualityHighHigh (or Off with RT)
Subsurface Scattering QualityHighHigh
Ambient OcclusionHighHigh (or Off with RT)
Color PrecisionHighHigh
Mirror QualityHighHigh
Level of Detail (LOD)HighHigh
Crowd DensityHigh (depends on CPU)High (depends on CPU)
Ray Tracing  
Ray TracingOffOn
Ray-Traced ReflectionsN/AOn
Ray-Traced Sun ShadowsN/AOn
Ray-Traced Local ShadowsN/AOn
Ray-Traced LightingN/AUltra or Lower
Path TracingOffOff (On only for RTX 4090+)

Verdict

That concludes the recommendation for Cyberpunk: 2077 at 1080p resolution. Depending on your GPU, you will need to customize each setting according to your VRAM and available performance headroom. Since the 1660Ti is mentioned, it means you will be able to play the game with that GPU as well, at 1080p and with RT, and that card is still competitive.

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