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are probably more onerous than the CPU and
GPU demands.
Those are just the minimum requirements,
but the Recommended specs aren’t crushing
either. CD Projeckt recommends a Core
i7-4790 or humble AMD Ryzen 3 3200G,
paired with either a GTX 1060 or a Radeon R9
Fury. You’ll ideally want 12GB of memory for
Cyberpunk 2077, and CD Projekt strongly
recommends an SSD, though the 70GB
storage requirement can also apply to
traditional hard drives. The vast, open world
will probably feel awfully pokey on an HDD,
though.
But some of those DirectX 12 tricks are the
reason you may consider upgrading your
graphics card (go.pcworld.comupgr) for
Cyberpunk 2077 when it launches on
November 19. Cyberpunk 2077 goes all-in on
ray tracing (go.pcworld.com/cyrt) andNvidia’s fantastic
speed-boosting
DLSS 2.0
technology. You’ll
need a GeForce
RTX graphics card
to tour Night City
with those
beautiful,
cutting-edge
lighting
technologies
enabled, be it an
older RTX 20-series
GPU (if you can find one heavily discounted
[go.pcworld.com/hvds]) or one of the
just-launched RTX 30-series options (if you
can find one for sale).
The $700 GeForce RTX 3080 is
staggeringly powerful (go.pcworld.
com/38fe), while the $500 GeForce RTX
3070 launches October 15 (go.pcworld.
com/oc15), promising RTX 2080 Ti-toppling
performance at well under half the RTX 2080
Ti’s $1,200 asking price.
AMD’s next-gen “Big Navi” Radeon RX
6000 graphics cards will also support ray
tracing in some way, though it remains to be
seen how (and how effectively). They won’t
play nice with Nvidia’s proprietary DLSS
technology, however. Look for AMD to unveil
Radeon RX 6000 on October 28 (go.
pcworld.com/oc28), mere weeks before
Cyberpunk 2077 itself hits the street.Cyberpunk 2077’s system requirements.