A new official Black Myth: Wukong Game Science, the developer of the highly anticipated Soulslike action game, has released a benchmarking tool for PC. The tool assesses system compatibility ahead of the game's release on August 20.
Available as a free download on Steam, the benchmark is just under 8GB in size and contains a short scene of the game world. Like other benchmark tools, this scene is rendered in real-time, using a variety of preset options or specific graphical settings you choose, and is followed by a screen showing the overall results of your performance.
I was keen to try it out for myself and since it only takes a couple of minutes, I spent a bit of time playing around with it. While my current PC isn't too shabby, it's still a couple of years old and has struggled to run many similar recent games, including Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and Remnant 2.
Given the fact that Black Myth: Wukong It's being developed in Unreal Engine 5 and looks absolutely stunning in every preview we've seen so far, with high-fidelity visuals and plenty of intense graphical effects. I was quite worried that it wouldn't run too well on my machine. Thankfully, this benchmark has put those fears to rest with some very reassuring results.
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Running the game on the recommended High setting (which uses FSR super-resolution sampling by default) at 1080p resolution, my PC averaged 89fps across the scene. This included spikes of 102fps at less active moments, plus a few barely noticeable dips to 23fps. All in all, a brilliant performance, and certainly better than I expected given my cheaper Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU.
In fact, performance remained uniformly excellent even when I enabled ray tracing. On that same High preset with ray tracing enabled and set to medium, frame rates averaged 54 fps with almost no noticeable drops. A lower performance than before, but still comfortably playable and with a noticeable improvement in the quality of reflective surfaces, like river water.
While this is definitely a good sign and suggests that this is a high-quality PC port, these results should be taken with a grain of salt. As stated on the benchmark store page, “the complexity and variability of gameplay scenarios” means that “benchmark results may not fully represent the actual gameplay experience and final performance.”
If you are unable to achieve the desired performance in the PC benchmark tool, it is worth keeping in mind that Black Myth: Wukong It will also be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
