Game:

Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)

Duration: 22:45

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I was asked to do a test of the game with no hyperthreading on the CPU so here it is. No major stutters besides the occasional ones when a whole new area is loaded (there are such points in Cyberpunk). So the game runs fluently with some small CPU bottlenecks in areas like the Med station and the Metro roundabout that occur in crowded areas. If you enable Turbo on all cores through the BIOS trick (which would make the CPU boost to 3.5 Ghz on all cores) they should be close to eliminated for a 60 fps experience. I tried running on streets with crowds and I didn't experience CPU bottleneck with these settings.

Note that VSync is turned on at 60 fps except when I was checking out bottleneck areas where I disabled it for some time: 18:42 to 21:04 .

At some point of the video I enable "DLSS" which is actually FSR 2.0 mod from Nexus mods which replaces DLSS. As you can see there is some severe ghosting on cars when it is enabled and when NPCs blink, but in combat I don't see any. It is just a glimpse at what is possible, if it was implemented from developers. FSR 2.0 Balanced compared to FSR 1.0 Ultra Quality is better in terms of sharpness and quality in my opinion.

If you want 60 fps at all times, turn down some of the graphical settings from Ultra to High like the most important one Screen Space Reflections and others like Volumetric Cloud Quality and Max Dynamic Decals including lowering the crowd density to Medium to ease up CPU load. You need to keep FSR 1.0 at Ultra Quality for this resolution.

In conclusion I would say that leaving CPU hyper threading enabled is better since the game is made so it benefits from it.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Graphical settings used throughout the benchmark + FSR 1.0 Ultra Quality
04:08 - Quick Ray Tracing tests along with FSR 2.0 mod
07:12 - Back to no Ray Tracing and FSR 2.0 Balanced
09:21 - Gig Combat
12:00 - Back to FSR 1.0 Ultra Quality
14:20 - Native Resolution
15:00 - Switching again to FSR 1.0 Ultra Quality
17:42 - Some areas where CPU bottleneck occurs

PC Specifications:
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3
CPU Cooler: ASUS ROG RYUJIN 240
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Fatal1ty Gaming i7
RAM: Kinston Fury Renegade 2 x 16 GB 2666 Mhz (clocked at 2133 Mhz)
GPU: GIGABYTE Eagle RX 6700 XT (+112 Memory clock, Fast Timing, 1150 mV core voltage, +15% Power Limit)
Storage: NVMe M.2 HP EX950 1 TB
PSU: NZXT C850
Case: In Win 805

Monitor: Acer BX340CK

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