Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition launches on Apple Silicon Macs this week, requires M1 minimum

CD PROJEKT RED will launch Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition onto Apple Silicon this week, where it will run on the first-gen M1 processor inside of Mac systems as long as you've got 16GB of RAM minimum.

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Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will drop onto the Mac App Store, Steam, GOG.com, and the Epic Games Store on July 17 and will pack both the base game and the Phantom Liberty expansion that launched back in 2023. Apple and CD PROJEKT RED have been hard at work on the game, where Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will support older Mac hardware like the M1 processor, but you'll need 16GB of unified RAM minimum.

Mac users with 8GB of RAM are left in the dark, but Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is a VRAM-heavy game, so needing 16GB of unified RAM minimum makes sense. CD PROJEKT RED will include an interesting "for this Mac" preset that optimizes the image quality and performance of the game based on different M-series processors.

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will feature technologies like MetalFX upscaling, MetalFX Frame Interpolation, and MetalFX Denoising, with the latter two added to Apple's Metal 4 API this year. These technologies will work similar to how NVIDIA Frame Generation works, where an immediate frame is generated for two input frames to smooth out gameplay by raising performance, but the trade off here is an increase in input lag.

The game will also feature support for spatial audio with head tracking, so if you're using AirPods -- and more specifically the higher-end AirPods Max headphones -- then you can enjoy some seriously good audio in Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition on your Mac.

If you've got the flagship M4 Max processor inside of a higher-end MacBook Pro laptop, then you can enjoy higher-end 120FPS performance from Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, something that was revealed not too long ago (and you can read more about that in the links above). This will require interpolation and upscaling of course, just like any higher-end PC will require Frame Generation and DLSS to reach 120FPS.

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition launches onto Apple Silicon Mac systems on July 17.