Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.05 Tested – Is Ryzen Performance Boosted?

Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.05 Tested - Is Ryzen Performance Boosted?

Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.05 Tested – Is Ryzen Performance Boosted?

Patch 1.05 for Cyberpunk 2077 became available for PC yesterday, offering gamers a long list of bug fixes, and performance optimisations for users of AMD’s Ryzen processors. 

Within CD Projekt Red’s patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077’s patch 1.05, the developer claims that they have “Optimized default core/thread utilization for 4-core and 6-core AMD Ryzen processors”, noting that “8-core, 12-core and 16-core processors remain unchanged and behaving as intended”. 

Today we are looking at patch 1.05 for Cyberpunk 2077, and how this update has impacted the game’s CPU performance on Ryzen processors. On the second page of this article, we will also be comparing this data to patch 1.04 after using the PC community’s “Hex Edit” for the game, which implemented similar core/thread utilisation fixes for the game. 
 

Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.05 Tested - Is Ryzen Performance Boosted?   
Patch 1.04 VS Patch 1.05 

To put things into simple terms, Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.05 update allows AMD’s Ryzen processors to properly utilise SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading), delivering performance improvements for supported Ryzen processors by allowing the game to utilise all available threads. 

Like our other performance-focused Cyberpunk 2077 articles, we are testing the game using an AMD Ryzen 9 3950X with cores/threads enabled or disabled to simulate processors with lower core/thread counts. The benchmark scene that we used is the same scene that we used in our CPU testing in our Cyberpunk 2077 PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide. 

As expected, without SMT, the performance of Cyberpunk 2077 is only marginally different with patch 1.05 when using a 4-core, 4-thread CPU configuration. However, with our 4-core 8-thread setup sees a large performance increase, thanks to Cyberpunk 2077’s utilisation of additional CPU cores and threads. Patch 1.05 delivers us a 26.7% increase average framerate with our 4-core 8-thread Ryzen processor. 

With our 6-core 12-thread Ryzen setup, we saw the average framerate of our benchmark scene increase from 63.5 FPS to 69.2 FPS, an 8.97% performance increase. When looking at 1st percentile framerates, a larger performance gain of 15.9% is achieved. 

In our higher core count testing, we noted smaller performance increases that are more marginal than our 4-core/6-core (with SMT) results. 

Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.05 Tested - Is Ryzen Performance Boosted?   

Head over to the next page for further details and Hex Edit performance comparisons