The upcoming Black Myth: Wukong now has an official benchmarking tool, and it will push your PC to its limits.
Black Myth: Wukong is coming out next week, but ahead of the game’s release, developer Game Science has put out a dedicated benchmark tool. The free app, which is available on Steam now, will push even the best graphics cards to their limits, and I took it out for a quick spin to see how demanding the game really is.
The short answer is extremely demanding. As you can see from my initial run below, I was only able to achieve an average of 22 frames per second (fps) in the benchmark at 4K with maxed-out settings. That’s with the most powerful gaming hardware available right now, pairing an RTX 4090 GPU with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
That may seem way too low, but Black Myth: Wukong includes path tracing. Native performance, especially at 4K, is on the level of a game like Alan Wake 2. Game Science clearly intends players to use some form of upscaling and frame generation in the game.
