Cyberpunk 2077 vs the WORST RTX Pre-Built EVER!

**Testing the Optiplex with DLSS and Ray Tracing**

This poor Optiplex but I think that's a good situation to test under because then we can see how much various setting combinations affect the actual CPU bottleneck now straight off the batches with 1080p high settings we're getting about 29 frames per second after that I switched on just ray tracing with these settings nothing else and the frame rate tanked even further in fact it almost halved to 17.3 with a 1 low of 12 frames per second which is actually very similar to the previous test.

Now after this I decided to turn on the DLSS balanced preset which got us about 22.3 frames per second after this I decided to switch off ray tracing but leave on DLSS balance just to see how that plays with a CPU bottleneck and well we're getting pretty much the same frame rate as with DLSS off but obviously it didn't make a difference because what DLSS does is it reduces the render resolution and then up scales it which helps if you have a GPU bottleneck at like 1440p or 4k but if you have mainly a CPU bottleneck reducing the render resolution isn't gonna help you now after this I thought let's see what 1440p does let's give it a higher resolution and see what that does for the frame rate and well it had pretty much no effect compared to 1080p and again this is because the graphics card isn't the limitation it's the CPU here so it's interesting to see how the games behave in response to a little loser I5 here.

And then after this finally I decided to test a couple of other presets just to see how it affects the frame rate and with ultra low and high it pretty much makes no difference now just a quick note before I take the little RTX 2060 out of the highway pileup Optiplex and put it in the EP in the system I just wanted to make a quick note on the visual quality of the DLSS settings which it's widely considered you need to use for ray tracing even with more high-end graphics cards at 1080p the DLSS in this game just does not look amazing even with balanced settings it becomes noticeably blurrier than without the LSS on and then when you turn on ultra performance DLSS it kind of looks like you spent the entire previous night rubbing a tub of vaseline into your eyes like it's it looks real bad at 1080p.

And with that finally before we finish off the video let's see how much of a difference that 10 core behemoth makes to the gaming performance now when you just walk through Night City it more than doubles the frame rate from the I5 with the high preset you're sitting at an average of 62.9 frames per second and that's the huge difference between these two setups regardless of where you are on the map if you're indoors or driving around or walking through a crowd in Night City you get very little frame rate variation it's actually very impressive that one percent low of 52.5 frames per second is very good it's it's pretty consistent and if you take a quick peek at what the system's doing it's clear that the tables have turned the I9 is now patiently waiting for that RTX 2060 which has gone from being the bottleneck e to the bottlenecker.

And the story stays the same if you turn on ray tracing with DLSS balanced you more than double the average frame rate going from 22.3 frames per second to 48.9 frames per second with the I9 and there we have it clearly an I5 3470 is a terrible pairing with an RTX 2060 regardless of what you do with the settings just there's nothing you can do to alleviate that CPU bottleneck yes you may jump up to 1440p and then not have nearly as much of a CPU bottleneck but then you're still gaming at 22 frames per second yeah there's not really much you can do with this ammo crate system thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video please like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one check out my stream link in the description below and until the next video bye