Nvidia has launched a brand new trailer exhibiting off Cyberpunk 2077‘s Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode, which is able to carry full path tracing to the sport. In essence, should you’ve bought a hefty graphics card, then you’ll use this mode to see Night time Metropolis in a complete new gentle.
Helpfully, Nvidia explains the distinction between customary ray tracing and path tracing within the trailer itself. Path tracing “simulates gentle all through all the scene” fairly than doing so individually for elements like shadows and reflections, which is how customary ray tracing works. Slightly than a restricted variety of gentle sources, path tracing “fashions all properties of sunshine from a limiteless variety of emissive sources”.
In the event you’re not technically-minded, then in easy phrases, this mainly means Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode will make Night time Metropolis look extra realistically lit, with extra correct reflections, shadows, and lighting. You may check out Nvidia’s trailer, which reveals the expertise in motion, proper right here.
The trailer additionally reveals DLSS 3 tech in motion, massively bettering Cyberpunk 2077‘s framerate even with the brand new full ray tracing choice enabled. The jumps are fairly drastic; the place the participant was beforehand hitting round 16-17fps in a metropolis scene, DLSS 3 permits them to succeed in 125fps or extra. The specs for that exact leap aren’t revealed, but it surely’s clear Nvidia needs DLSS 3 to look fairly spectacular.
In fact, if you wish to take full benefit of the brand new path tracing, then you are going to want a reasonably good rig to match. Nvidia’s seize specs use an RTX 4090 and an Intel i9-12900K processor, with 32GB of RAM. That is all utilizing Cyberpunk 2077‘s new Overdrive graphics preset, with Nvidia Reflex and DLSS 3 each enabled. In the event you’re nonetheless rocking an RTX 2080 Ti like me, you would possibly need to assume twice earlier than enabling that Overdrive preset.
In keeping with Nvidia, the “expertise preview” for this new mode arrives on April eleventh, and the total launch is “coming quickly”. We’ll have to attend and see when Overdrive Mode is launched in full, however one factor’s for positive: it will push your setup to its absolute restrict.
