A NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super paired with a Intel Core i5-12400F lands around 28 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p with Ultra textures, High shadows and DLSS Quality. Ray tracing is set to Medium. 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 CPU is limiting FPS here
Intel Core i5-12400F is holding back your NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super at 1440p in Cyberpunk 2077. A faster CPU could get you closer to ~34 fps at these settings.
Estimate only — based on a 20% uplift for a moderate CPU bottleneck, not a measured benchmark.
Suggested upgrade
AMD Ryzen 5 7600
Strong 1080p gaming chip on the long-lived AM5 platform.
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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.