Digital Foundry - Cyberpunk 2077

[Shiken]

ArchangelMadzz said:

Shiken said:

Looks like an XSX win to me overall. Even with slight frame rate advantage on PS5, the higher crowd and traffic density on the XSX is preferable to the world itself IMO. This will vary from person to person I suppose, but performance mode is a noticeable trade off either way.  The frame rate on the X is mainly in the mid 50s under stress, which isn't too far from the mark considering you have more going on in crowded areas than PS5.

The XSX is pretty much locked at 30 fps on quality mode, and is the best looking console version to play as well with boosts to ambient occlusion, reflections, lighting, post processing and resolution.

Bugs still present in both however. I look forward to seeing the next gen patch, and will play a second run when it drops.  It will be interesting, because this already seems like a gen 9 game forced onto gen 8 consoles.

I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. 

It runs at a lower resolution, looks worse and dips more at the same 60fps target?

Unless you're arguing the 30fps is a win?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMW9UFDJoJ4

Here the comparison for PS5 vs XSX on NXgamer, which shows the XSX also has the clear advantage in visual fidelity across the board in performance mode as well with a slightly higher average resolution (XSX 2304x1296 to PS5 2160x1215), emphasis on crowd and traffic density, and visuals effects.  I asked JRPGfan to add this to his OP to better emphasize the difference between versions in performance mode earlier, but he hasn't done it for some reason.  DF is great, but it is always good to take into consideration multiple sourced when available to get a clearer picture as they may be testing different part of the game.  Also hotfix 1.04 was not released at the same time as PC and PS4 for the XSX/S, so there is that.  Not sure if that did or did not affect the DF comparison.

I also personally find quality mode the best way to play it ON CONSOLE, because not only looks the best by a good margine, but runs a smooth framerate at 30 fps.

In performance mode, the XSX is still on top with visuals across the board.  However the framerate is suffering because of it in this mode.  So if a solid 60 fps is all you care about, then the PS5 is the way to go.  To me, the cuts are too noticeable but that is subjective.

In the end this is not a power benchmark for either console.  It is not optimized for them and is being brute forced in BC to reach what we see compared to the gen 8 consoles.  I am just saying that as of now, I feel the XSX is clearly the best console to play the game on unless 60 fps is literally all you care about.