Black Legend: Wukong Performance Test – Unreal Engine 5 Shows Its Claws! Gorgeous Graphics, But Terrible Hardware Requirements

Games using the Unreal Engine 5 appear in increasing numbers, thanks to which the long-awaited graphics upscaling has already begun. An example of this trend is Black Myth: Wukong, tested today, which looks simply exceptional in places, bringing the real quality closer to technological demos. However, the price of visual progress was paid for by very high hardware requirements, which may soon become the norm. Black Myth: Wukong looks really amazing, but the graphics could be improved even more with full ray tracing, but upscaling and frame generator become essential companions during the game.

Author: Sebastian Oktaba

Black Myth: Wukong is a production of the Chinese company Game Science, and is strongly inspired by the myths of the Middle Kingdom and the novel Journey to the West, which is not particularly well known to Western audiences. Therefore, it promises to be a completely original combination. The adventure will take place in the form of the Monkey King, who fights against adversity, fate and hostile creatures. Black Myth: Wukong is a third-person arcade game similar in concept to Soulslike, although it is less strict in terms of punishing the player for failure, for example, we retain experience after death. However, the level of difficulty is high, especially during battles with sophisticated bosses and unique monsters that we encounter literally every twelve minutes or so. In addition, we develop our abilities, collect more and more powerful equipment, explore the world, etc. The production is intended for one player only.

Black Myth: Wukong is a production with an original world and at the same time a strong arcade game, but the graphics attract the most attention. The Unreal 5 engine with ray tracing technology makes it one of the most beautiful games in the history of digital entertainment.

Black Legend: Wukong hardware requirements are divided into rasterization and ray tracing sections. You can safely ignore the issue of processor and RAM, both elements are nothing special, because the main load of painstaking work is shifted to graphics cards. The minimum configuration without ray tracing includes NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580, which allows you to play 1920×1080 Medium at most, while for the High profile, the requirements increase to the level of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT. If you are aiming for a very high resolution of 3840×2160, then you need to set up NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 / AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT. The manufacturer does not even provide AMD suggestions for ray tracing settings, Focusing exclusively on NVIDIA cards.with the GeForce RTX 3060/4060/4080 Super models listed one by one. Green is definitely stronger in the ray tracing category, but the lack of suggested equations seems a bit odd…

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Black Myth: Wukong uses the most advanced version of Unreal Engine 5, which delivers stunning graphics using the manufacturer’s rich set of technologies. The developer’s collaboration with NVIDIA has also borne fruit. Add full ray tracingincluding indirect lighting, shading and reflections (taking into account particles and caustics), creating one of the most complete implementations of this technology. DLAA, DLSS 3.5 and Frame Generation are also available, which proves to be practically essential to see Black Myth: Wukong in all its glory. It is also worth noting that the title has recently been added to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4000 graphics cards. An alternative way to play the game is to use the GeForce NOW service, especially if you do not have a powerful configuration but still want to see high graphics settings.