A NVIDIA RTX 3060 paired with a Intel Core i5-13600K lands around 85 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p with Medium textures, Low shadows and DLSS Performance. Ray tracing is left off on this pairing. These values come from the same model the interactive optimizer uses, applied to this exact hardware pair rather than a generic preset.
Based on benchmark data and community reports for this hardware combination — treat as an estimate, not a guarantee. How we calculate this.
Your GPU is limiting FPS here
NVIDIA RTX 3060 is holding back your Intel Core i5-13600K at 1080p in Cyberpunk 2077. A better GPU could get you closer to ~102 fps at these settings.
Estimate only — based on a 20% uplift for a moderate GPU bottleneck, not a measured benchmark.
Suggested upgrade
NVIDIA RTX 5060
Entry 1080p card with DLSS 4 frame generation.
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Cyberpunk 2077 remains the benchmark PC game of the decade — not because every system can run it well, but because of how dramatically settings choices change the experience. Night City punishes both GPUs and CPUs simultaneously: dense crowds and traffic stress your CPU, while volumetric fog, screen-space reflections, and path-traced lighting can crush even a flagship GPU. The good news is the engine scales beautifully, and a careful settings pass on mid-range hardware delivers a stunning result.
If you have an RTX 40-series card, DLSS Quality plus Ray Tracing: Medium is the sweet spot at 1440p. RTX 50-series owners can comfortably enable Path Tracing with DLSS Quality and Frame Generation. On AMD and RTX 20/30-series cards, skip ray tracing entirely, set FSR or DLSS to Quality, and prioritize crowd density and shadow quality — those two settings affect immersion in Night City more than any other.
Targets the current PC release with recent drivers. Estimates separate conventional rasterized settings from the much heavier ray-tracing and path-tracing modes.