Nvidia and CDPR advise users that they need a powerful system with RTX 40 graphics cards to take advantage of Cyberpunk 2077’s Path Tracing mode.
Cyberpunk 2077 In terms of graphic effects, it is considered one of the best available games, and now Nvidia plans to use the latest technology to improve the graphics of its video games under the title Introduce Path Tracing, which was developed in collaboration with CD Projekt RED studio experts, in this game.
Now CD Projekt Red art director Jacob Nepik And Pavel Kozlovsky, the senior technology development engineer of this company in an interview with the publication PCWorld at GDC 2023 To comment on various aspects Path Tracing and how it works in improving visual effects Night City in Cyberpunk 2077 game.
According to Jacob, Ray Tracing technology in games is not only used for the sake of appearance and is much more important in the development process of video games. For example, this technique solves big problems in the process of making games and improves various aspects of the visual elements of games, including shadow correction, light reflection, and ambient occlusion. resulted in.
Now Path Tracing has taken a different path and is trying to go beyond this to affect each of these layers separately and in the form of a unified rendering path. But the important question that arises here is what processing power is needed to run Cyberpunk 2077 with Path Tracing enabled? Describing Path Tracing as one of the technologies of the future, Jacob stated in response to this question that you will need a powerful computer for this work.
Kozoski also added that to experience the Cyberpunk 2077 preview with Path Tracing, a system equipped with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series graphics processors is definitely needed, and there are good reasons for this. First, DLSS 3 is required for RT Overdrive mode, and this technology is only available in the latest series of Nvidia GPUs. In addition, SER or Shader Execution Recording is also supported in Nvidia’s 40 series graphics chips, which helps a lot in calculating incoherent workloads such as Path Tracing.
Of course, in response to the question that only the high-end models of Nvidia’s new graphics cards such as RTX 4090 are suitable for running the new cyberpunk demo, the expert of CD Project Red said that the situation is not like this and products like RTX 4070 and its classes can also A decent frame rate for this game with Path Tracing provide
The Cyberpunk 2077 Path Tracing technical preview is scheduled to be released on April 11.
