Black Myth: Wukong benchmark will bring your PC to its knees

Black Myth: Wukong is finally launching this month. This game has become well known for its visual prowess, harnessing many of the most advanced tools available today. The game is set to be a demanding one on full graphical settings, but a standalone benchmark is now freely available, so you can check if your rig can handle the game before spending any cash. 

Game Science, the studio behind Black Myth: Wukong, made the benchmark tool available to PC gamers via Steam this week. The benchmark renders a real-time in-game sequence, so you get a true look at the game in action.

As you would expect, you can adjust graphical settings and go through multiple runs with the benchmark. Through my own testing on a system with an RTX 4080 and a Ryzen 9 5950X, I can manage around 60FPS on average with ray-tracing on and DLSS set to Quality. If you remove ray-tracing, that number jumps up to around 75FPS. To get into the 100s, Frame Generation is required if you don't want to drop to lower quality settings.

At minimum, players of this game will need a system with an 8th Gen Intel Core i5 processor or 1st Gen Ryzen 5 processor, along with 16GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580 graphics card. If you want to crank the settings up, you will need considerably newer hardware, including a ray-tracing capable graphics card like the RTX 2060.

Black Myth: Wukong will include various tools to save on performance, including DLSS for Nvidia users, FSR for AMD, and XeSS for those with an Intel GPU. Due to this game's use of Unreal Engine 5, an SSD is strongly recommended.

KitGuru Says: Have you run the Black Myth: Wukong benchmark yet? How well does your system run the game? 

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