The long awaited Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Pro patch will arrive tomorrow, April 8th 2026 and it packs a whole lotta goodies.
Speaking on the PlayStation Blog, Kuba Knapik, VP, Global Art Director at CD PROJEKT RED, broke the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Pro patch update into different areas, each addressing a different aspect of Cyberpunk 2077‘s visual presentation on PS5 Pro.
Starting with image quality, Knapik praised the latest implementation of Sony’s PSSR upscaling technology for it’s ability to clean up the image above and beyond the current technologies available to console gamers:
“This tech goes through each pixel, one by one, and upscales it using advanced artificial intelligence. The result is incredible, with every inch of Night City — every thermal katana, every gonk on the street, every supercharged sports car — coming to life.”
Next on the menu of this hearty meal of a Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Pro patch are the ray tracing improvements. An arguably key and defining element of Cyberpunk 2077‘s visual aesthetic, PC owners have long enjoyed an extensive suite of ray tracing effects on their platform that were simply unavailable to PlayStation gamers. That changes with the Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Pro patch which not only allows players to layer on ray traced lighting, shadow and reflection effects alongside a quality mode style presentation at 40 FPS known as Ray Tracing Mode, but also provides an augmented performance mode in which players can choose the ray tracing effects they wish to leverage:
“Speaking of ray tracing, more power also means more options. We know players have different priorities while gaming, so are happy to offer three distinct PS5 Pro modes that allow everyone to unlock an experience that suits them. Ray Tracing Pro enables all available ray tracing enhancements, delivering the most visually advanced version of Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5 Pro. This includes ray-traced reflections, ambient occlusion, skylight, shadows, and emissive lighting, all active while Cyberpunk 2077 targets 40 frames per second on variable refresh rate-enabled displays or 30 frames per second otherwise.”
The final piece of the Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Pro patch puzzle is the performance side of things. Emboldened by the more powerful GPU and additional GPU headroom that PSSR provides, Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5 Pro will now run up to 90 FPS in performance mode, or at a rock solid 60 FPS in performance mode with a number of enabled ray tracing effects:
“On the other end of the spectrum, Performance mode focuses on delivering the highest possible frame rate for fast and fluid gameplay. On displays with VRR, Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5 Pro reaches up to 90 frames per second while maintaining high image fidelity. And finally, for those seeking the best of both, we designed Ray Tracing mode as the sweet spot between visuals and performance. It features select ray tracing enhancements while maintaining a smooth 60 frames per second, meaning improvements across the board.”
Ever since PS5 Pro was announced, there was a sizable subset of PlayStation gamers that were looking forward to what Sony’s powerful mid-generation console could do with CDPR’s stunning cyberpunk action RPG, and the Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Pro patch looks to match those expectations and then some.
Source: PlayStation Blog
