The Cyberpunk 2077 'Minimum System Requirements' Gaming PC (Outdated)

Can you play CD Projekt Red's latest open world adventure using the minimum system specs? Well today I've combined an Intel Core i5 3570k, GTX 780 and 8 gigabytes of ram to find out!

**UPDATE: As of patch 1.5, the minimum suggested GPU is now a GTX 970. This video will stay up, but I'll have an updated one out soon.**

This is Cyberpunk 2077 running with the developer stated minimum system requirements.

Settings and test methodology used:
In today's tests I used a mixture of native 1080p, dynamic 1080p and a static scale reduction which took the game as low as 1152 x 648. The preset remained at low, though the texture quality was left on high (as per the preset) as I found this made no difference in performance, and it's no surprise considering the 3GB GTX 780 was hitting 100% usage a lot of the time anyway.

The gameplay was captured externally using another PC to avoid any performance loss that may have occurred when using internal solutions like Shadowplay.

The version of the game tested was the GOG version, as 100% of the proceeds go to the developers :)

Thanks for watching :)

[RandomGaminginHD]

So I've put it in the description but I'll mention it again here. I used the low preset throughout but kept the high texture settings that the preset defaulted to. I found no performance difference when switching between the texture options. I'll also be following progress of patches and bringing you an updated video in a month or so to see how things change :) (plus i'll test the 3000G soon haha)

[kylesebring]

LTT: "let's run this game at max settings on the best hardware"
RandomGaminginHD: "let's do the exact opposite of that"

[georgepaul]

Imagine driving away from a crowd to save your pc from crashing XD

[alanwakes]

Love a gamer is out there who has got our back with low end pc's

[SantiagoSantiago]

Cool that it can run on 4c/4t, but man, the city with Crowds on High is an absolute killer. Thanks for the video! :) Looking forward for the 3000G test

[kryptonic]

"wake up samurai, we've got a city to render"

[naturalcauses]

Linus: 8K maximum graphics pc
RandomHD: but with a twist!

[dylandeklerk]

Thank you so much for doing this. I've been wondering how well it would actually run with the minimum specs

[localnyraccoon]

"I bought the whole computer so I'm gonna use the whole computer!"

[vincentthendean]

That awkward moment when last gen hardware has lower performance than the minimum system requirement.

[darxustech]

They should provide FPS expectations with those minimum specs.
Edit: I'm talking about the hardware specs they provide for graphics levels above the absolute minimum, at 0:14. 30 fps is fine for the absolute minimum - and they might as well specify that one too. But assuming 30 fps for the 4k ultra graphics specs is silly, nobody would actually use that.

[kayper]

Apparently lowering the "crowd density" gives you a lot of extra fps from what I've heard. Try it out if you're struggling with performance. (it's under the gameplay options for some reason)

[bahramraftari]

Setting the "Crowd Density" to low in the gameplay setting can help boost the fps.

[PZMaTTy]

4:50 That friendly npc really wants to die

[pRick]

I’m tired of seeing this game getting constantly benchmarked with rtxs 3080’s and 3090’s .. thank you so much for this video.

[sam_kumar]

Enough of rtx 3090 5950x 128gb benchmarks lets see what I can afford
Edit- Youtube is drunk didn't give any notification that my comment has this many likes . And thnx for the likes guys Its the most liked comment I have

[blitztube]

My pc with 720p display: My time has come!

[TheMarck]

I had a 3570k in my main rig for nearly 6 years, loved that little CPU - it was such a trooper, it's in a guest PC now but good to know it could still play something like this :P

[absoluteandro]

“Wake up samurai, we’ve got a pc to burn”

edit: yo wtf? I was only expecting like 6 likes lmao.

[Carnyzzle]

"I think I can play at 60fps"
CDPR: "Lol"