One of many PlayStation 5’s greatest video games is formally getting a serious replace as CD Projekt Purple’s Cyberpunk 2077 receives its PlayStation 5 Professional patch this week.
What’s new in Cyberpunk 2077’s replace?
In a latest submit on the PS Weblog, CD Projekt Purple detailed what followers can count on within the new, free PS5 Professional, which is on the market on April 8, 2026. The brand new replace brings with it a few of the PS5 Professional’s greatest advantages, together with 4K visuals, enhanced efficiency, superior ray tracing, and extra to the hit sci-fi recreation. In accordance with the weblog, the brand new replace closely makes use of PlayStation’s Spectral Tremendous Decision, higher often called PSSR.
Because of this, Cyberpunk 2077 will get an enormous improve in its ray tracing know-how, with the lighting within the recreation getting a serious improve in the best way the neon-soaked buildings and vehicles all look in Night time Metropolis. The PS5 Professional replace additionally implements BVH8 (8-way Bounding Quantity Hierarchy) to help the ray-traced lighting, shadows, and extra.
When it comes to efficiency, this implies Cyberpunk 2077 targets 40 frames per second on PS5 Professional on the sport’s “visible mode.” On its Efficiency Mode, on variable refresh rate-enabled gadgets, the sport reaches as much as 90 frames per second whereas sustaining a excessive constancy.
The total record of video games that can help PlayStation 5 Professional’s PSSR 2.0 consists of:
- Silent Hill 2
- Silent Hill f
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Management
- Alan Wake 2
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
- Ultimate Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Nioh 3
- Rise of the Ronin
- Monster Hunter Wilds
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Crimson Desert
- Murderer’s Creed Shadows
- Cyberpunk 2077
The brand new PSSR 2 is massive for the PS5 Professional. In accordance with PlayStation, the brand new model of PSSR is one thing the corporate has been engaged on for a while, and “takes a really totally different method” than the way it has up to now. Resident Evil Requiem was the primary title that makes use of the brand new PSSR and can maintain each the body price and picture high quality of the sport.
Gamers can flip the improved PSSR on or off within the system’s settings, underneath the Display and Video settings in “Video Output.”
