Best Intel CPU for 3080TI for cyberpunk? For ray tracing

[NPC]

whats the best CPU to run ray tracing with the 3080Ti?

[Nar!]

Generally speaking, the Intel Core i9-12900K was revered to be a good pair with the 3080TI (bottleneck wise). Outside of that, I don't know what your mileage will be on specific settings you're planning to play with, besides ray tracing (for example, your resolution, etc).

You can watch this Youtube performance check to give you a ballpark idea of what this exact pair of cpu and gpu can give you at 1440p, with ray tracing and DLSS set to Quality.

3080TI + i9 12900K Cyberpunk Ray Tracing Pyscho Mode 1440p

But like I said before, your mileage may vary, depending on how you set up your graphical settings and screen resolution. The uploader turned up everything at 1440p but the bar sequence isn't really the best way to benchmark because as we all know, there are more taxing areas in the game itself, especially in Dogtown.

[Sassanid]

I'm running a i7 10700K with a 3080ti and they've always seemed to be a good match.

[WALLZ]

man I need to build a new pc. Im still playing on a i5 4690 lmao

[BandoSan]

Originally posted by WALLZ:

man I need to build a new pc. Im still playing on a i5 4690 lmao

hey man if it works it works

[Ghostrider]

I just got a 7900X3D based system with a 4070Ti Super, all settings maxed out with Path Tracing enabled and the game looks and plays awesome.
For years I was an Intel user, but with how their latest generation CPU's have been going. I went AMD for my new system, as did not want the headaches some folks are having with the current crop of Intel CPU's.

[Adam Over]

I am in similar boat. I have to turn off Ray Tracing. And no hope of Path Tracing on this rig.
Thankfully the game looks amazing even without RT.

My GPU is a 3070 but my CPU only a i7 7700k.
I can run everything at ultra/psycho Without RT.
But RT causes (a low amount of) frame stutters.

CPU is for certain my bottleneck. I'd suggest at least a Gen 11 i7/i9 11 upwards.

[Helifax]

10900K + RTX 2080 Super ... bottleneck is on the 8GB of VRAM with RT at 1440p... 1080p is fine.
Or go all the way to 13900K/14900k + RTX 4090.. and all problems go away :))

But realistically, 9th gen or 10th gen for a RTX 2000/3000 series GPU. For 4000... go with 13th or 14th (13+) Intel CPU... or go AMD CPU side if that makes more sense for you...

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by Potat al Gaib:

Anything from Intel that is not a K SKU, after Gen 11, since from Gen 11, it defaults to hardcore thermal sepuku mode by the motherboard, which is considered "within specs" since Intel told mobo manufacturers to crank up the P1 and P2 power states, just because Engrish is a foreign alien language to the Taiwanese Chinese people, and Chinese is a foreign alien language to Intel American people, when it comes to product specs, especially when you talk about billion dollar worth of tech
Me, however getting constant 95-110 fps with raytracing overdrive preset, on a 13700k and 4080 super, with the intel castration baseline profile, so life is good!

This is pretty much why I went AMD this time around. As for the longest time I was an Intel user, but with what is going on with their latest CPU's. I went yeah no and got what I have now.