Digital Foundry: Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2

[HoloDust]

SuperJortendo said:

HoloDust said:

CP2077 might be old, but you will find that is still used in pretty much any review of new GPUs for still being quite demanding game.

I'd say that CP2077 is good early showcase, though Star Wars Outlaws will probably be better indicator, for its mandatory use of ray tracing.

Is star wars outlaws coming to the Switch 2? If that was announced then I completely forgot about it

Yeah, launching September 4th.

SWO will be interesting to see since, if I understood correctly, it doesn't have any fallback lighting system, so when RT is turned off via editing config files, it looks like this:

It's one belonging to this new crop of games that go full RT, which is easier for developers, instead of doing fallback prebaked lighting path, or combining the two approaches (as it really should be, since current gen consoles are not powerful enough for proper RT only).

That said, from lowest to maxed settings it's some 4x performance drop, but those maxed settings are not possible on current gen consoles (PS5 and XSX apparently run at high, with RT at mid). 

TECHPOWERUP has some nice comparisons, for best experience in top centre of the picture there's maximize, and then choose what you want to compare fomr left and right drop-down menu (default is Ultra+RR+RTXDI vs Low)

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/star-wars-outlaws-fps-performance-benchmark/4.html

Last edited by HoloDust - on 15 June 2025