Best Settings for RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti in The Last of Us 2 Remastered PC

By Mainak Dey / Tech / April 4, 2025

Here are the best settings for you to use on your RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti in The Last of Us 2 Remastered PC game.

best settings for rtx 3060 ti and rtx 3060 in the last of us remastered pc — Last of Us Part 2 Remastered can run at 1440p with the RTX 3060 and the RTX 3060 Ti (Image via Naughty Dog | Deltia’s Gaming)

2020’s Ampere midrange GPUs are starting to feel more like entry-level options in 2025. The RTX 3060 (12GB) still holds up reasonably well, but the RTX 3060 Ti struggles to keep up in comparison. Despite being faster, its 8GB VRAM limit can bottleneck while playing The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered.

The good news is that you can still run the game at 1440p with both cards. Just enable DLSS and apply selective tuning—especially to demanding settings like shadows, textures, and volumetric effects. We’ve optimized the settings below to balance image quality and performance, specifically for GPUs with 8–12GB of VRAM.

Note: You can fine-tune these if you want to. Enabling DLSS 4 (over the 3.7 version) via the app will introduce a bigger hit to performance, so you should select at least the performance mode. Also, these settings apply even if you are in 1080p; in that case, you can turn off DLSS or even turn up shadows.

CPU Requirements for The Last of Us 2 Remastered PC

The Last of Us Part 2 recommended settings — Recommended Settings by Developers (Image via Naughty Dog | Deltia’s Gaming)

Despite the requirements mentioned by the developers, real-world experience seems to favor CPUs with higher multi-threading performance. This is apparent due to the game’s high draw call nature in forest, mountains, and ice biome areas. Even pairing a 3060 Ti or a 3060 will require you to have at least a 13th Gen Intel CPU (e.g., 13400F, 12600KF, or 13500) or a Ryzen 5 5600/5600X-tier AMD CPU.

Best Settings for RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti In The Last of Us 2 Remastered

tlou-settings-page — Last of Us Part 2 Remastered PC settings menu (Image via Naughty Dog | Deltia’s Gaming)

Display Settings

Setting	Value
Display	Will be your display’s name
Window Mode	Fullscreen
Aspect Ratio	Auto
Display Resolution	2560 x 1440
Cinematic Pillarboxes	Enabled
Contrast	Default
Brightness	Default
HUD Brightness	Default // Personal Preference
HDR	Disabled // Enable if you have an HDR monitor
Upscale Method	DLSS
Upscale Quality	Balanced (3060 Ti) / Performance (3060 12GB)
Upscale Sharpness	5
Anti-Aliasing Mode	DLAA // will be greyed out
NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency	On
AMD Anti-Lag 2	Off
Frame Generation	Off // You can try FSR Framegen, but It takes more VRAM
Dynamic Resolution Scaling	Off
Refresh Rate	Your monitor’s max
Framerate Cap	360 FPS // Uncapped
VSync	Off

Graphics Settings

Setting	Value
Preset	Custom
Level of Detail	Medium (3060 Ti can try Medium–High)
Texture Quality	Medium–High (3060), Medium (3060 Ti)
Texture Filtering	8x Anisotropic (3060), 4x Anisotropic (3060 Ti)
Shadow Quality	Medium (3060), High (3060 Ti)
Screen Space Shadows	Medium
Image-Based Lighting	Enabled
Bounced Lighting	Enabled
Ambient Occlusion	Performance (3060), Quality (3060 Ti)
Screen Space Reflections	Low
Real-Time Reflections Quality	Medium (3060), High (3060 Ti)
Real-Time Clouds Shadow Reflections	Disabled
Screen Space Sub-Surface Scattering	Off
Refraction Quality	Medium
Depth of Field	On (Optional)
Depth of Field Quality	Medium (3060), Low (3060 Ti)
Motion Blur Quality	Off
Bloom	Enabled
Particle Density	Medium (3060), Low (3060 Ti) (VRAM)
Volumetric Effects Quality	Medium (3060), Low (3060 Ti) (VRAM)
Lens Flare	Quarter Resolution
Field of View	Default // Personal Preference
Camera Shake	Default // Personal Preference
Chromatic Aberration Intensity	Default // Personal Preference
Film Grain Intensity	Default // Personal Preference
Lens Dirt Intensity	Default // Personal Preference

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