Despite the fact that the CD Projekt RED game has become a joke due to its huge number of bugs and unfulfilled promises from the Polish developer, one thing that cannot be denied about Cyberpunk 2077 is that it has become an excellent benchmark to measure the performance of new GPUs, whether dedicated or integrated.
This is how the iGPU 680M Cyberpunk 2077 moves
The performance test has been carried out on an ASUS TUF Gaming F17 laptop that comes with an AMD 6800H APU, whose integrated GPU is a AMD RX680M with RDNA2 architecture and that among its specifications it has 12 Compute Units for a total of 768 “cores” or FP32 units, 12 units for calculating Ray Tracing, 48 texture units and 16 ROPS. All this seasoned with DDR5 memory that, with its bandwidth and dual channel, benefits the performance of the integrated graphics, on the one hand, due to the fact that they avoid contention in access with the CPU and, on the other, due to the bandwidth. additional compared to DDR4.
As can be seen in the image, it is capable of reaching peaks of up to 39 FPS with 100% GPU utilization, @ 2.2 GHzwhen generating the graphs of Cyberpunk 2077 at Full HD resolution and with the graphic settings in medium quality. However, it makes use of FidelityFX Super Resolution. So internally the game is rendered at a lower resolution and then scaled to a higher one with said algorithm and to be able to reach higher speed rates than rendering at 1080p directly.
However, there is not enough power to render Cyberpunk 2077 on a 680M with ray tracing active where framerate drops up to 5 FPS making the game totally unplayable. Which is a demonstration of how far the material democratization of ray tracing is for all PCs due to the high computing power that it requires and that an integrated GPU obviously lacks at the moment.
The results are as expected
In any case, it is not surprising that this is the performance of the 680M in Cyberpunk when we are talking about the least powerful type of graphics card of all, and it is that even the RX 6500 XT with the disappointment that has been in terms of performance is more powerful than the Ryzen 6000 iGPU. So this is not really a gaming graphics card and that has to be taken into account, but we also have to take into account the amount of resources that Cyberpunk asks for.
However, it is an improvement in performance compared to the Ryzen 5000 for certain applications such as retro minicomputers for emulation or equipment for so-called lapsed gaming. Which consists of playing games with a certain age and, therefore, require less power than expected. Which makes it easy to build a PC to play them for a relatively low price.
