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Updated: March 13, 2026
Cyberpunk 2077 Path Tracing PC Requirements: 2026 Ultimate Hardware Standard
Night City remains the ultimate PC benchmark. Full analysis of Ray Reconstruction, DLSS 3.5, 16GB VRAM saturation, and minimum specs for 60 FPS Path Tracing.
Lab Hardware Spec Snapshot
Minimum Baseline
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) / AMD Radeon RX 580
RAM: 12 GB RAM
Recommended 60+ FPS
CPU: Intel Core i7-13700K / AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super (16GB) / RTX 4070 Ti Super
RAM: 32 GB RAM
Night City Overdrive: Benchmarking the Limits of Real-Time Ray Bounces
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty pushed real-time graphics beyond rasterization. With Path Tracing mode enabled, every ray calculates indirect diffuse bounces, specular reflections, and subsurface scattering through human skin.
Dr. Keith Vance
Lead PC Hardware Benchmarking Analyst Lab Bench VerifiedAll benchmarks and crash reproductions are conducted in our controlled hardware lab across standardized AMD AM5 and Intel LGA1700 test benches using clean Windows 11 installs.
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