Best Settings to Play Cyberpunk: 2077 at 1440p

Here are the optimal settings for playing Cyberpunk at 1440p, with or without ray tracing, on GPUs with up to 12GB of VRAM and beyond.

Cyberpunk 2077, both the base game and the Phantom Liberty DLC, are hard to run at 1440p. Both the raster and RT requirements are equally high for 1440p. Many users prefer playing at 1440p, particularly with medium to high ray tracing settings, and their GPU choices mostly fall within the RTX 5060 Ti performance category. That said, gamers with similar performance tier GPUs and above can utilize these settings to enjoy the game to its fullest, whether with or without ray tracing.

Note: At 1440p, considering you are using RT, you need a CPU within the 13600K performance tier; otherwise, you will encounter performance issues.

Cyberpunk 2077: Best Settings for 1440p

A few keynotes to consider:

• Based on your preference for GPU, choose the upscaler of your choice, such as XeSS, FSR 2.1, FSR 4, or a DLSS Transformer/CNN model. FSR 3 has worse image quality for some reason, so use FSR 2.1 if you don’t have an FSR 4-capable card. Alternatively, use the Optiscaler mod for the best results. Or best use optiscaler mod.
• Frame Generation should be used on cards with 12GB or higher memory.

Best Settings Explored

Setting	Without RT (RTX 4060 Ti and within the same perf)	With RT (RTX 4080 and identical performance level)
Display and Scaling
Resolution	2560 x 1440	2560 x 1440
Maximum FPS	Off	Off
V-sync	Off	Off
DLSS/FSR/XeSS	Quality (or Balanced for performance)	Quality
DLSS Frame Generation	On (Optional)	On (Optional)
DLSS Ray Reconstruction	On (if Nvidia)	On (if Nvidia)
NVIDIA DLAA	On (if Nvidia)	On (if Nvidia)
Quality
Texture Quality	Medium/High	High
Field of View	70-85	70-85
Depth of Field	(Optional)	(Optional)
Improved Facial Lighting Geometry	(Optional)	(Optional)
Contact Shadows	Off	On
Anisotropy	16x	16x
Local Shadow Mesh Quality	High	High
Local Shadow Quality	High	High
Cascaded Shadow Range	Medium	Medium
Cascaded Shadow Resolution	Medium	Medium
Distant Shadows Resolution	Medium	Medium
Volumetric Fog Resolution	Medium	Medium
Max Dynamic Decals	High	High
Screen Space Reflections Quality	High	High (or Off with RT)
Subsurface Scattering Quality	High	High
Ambient Occlusion	High	High (or Off with RT)
Color Precision	High	High
Mirror Quality	High	High
Level of Detail (LOD)	High	High
Crowd Density	High (Depends on CPU)	High (Depends on CPU)
Ray Tracing
Ray Tracing	Off	On
Ray-Traced Reflections	N/A	On
Ray-Traced Sun Shadows	N/A	On
Ray-Traced Local Shadows	N/A	On
Ray-Traced Lighting	N/A	Ultra or Lower
Path Tracing	Off	Off (On only for RTX 4090+)

Verdict

That concludes the recommendation for Cyberpunk: 2077 at 1440p resolution. As per your GPU power, you can customize each setting. GPUs with performance close to the RTX 5060 can also be used for 1440p, but since those are 8GB GPUs, using RT will require you to play the game at 1080p. For pure raster, 5060 and equivalent GPUs can easily achieve 1440p raster.

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