A new official Black Myth: Wukong Game Science, the developer of the highly anticipated upcoming Soulslike action game, has released a PC benchmark tool. The tool evaluates system compatibility ahead of the game’s release on August 20th.
The benchmark is available as a free download on Steam, is just under 8GB in size, and contains a short scene from the game’s world. As with other benchmark tools, this scene is rendered in real-time, using either a variety of preset options or the specific graphics settings of your choice, and then displays a screen showing your overall performance results.
I was keen to try it out for myself and since it only takes a few minutes, I played around with it a bit. Although my current PC isn’t too bad, it’s a few years old now and has had problems running many similar recent games, including Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty And Remnants 2.
Given the fact Black Myth: Wukong is being developed in Unreal Engine 5 and looks absolutely stunning in every trailer we’ve seen so far, with high-resolution images and plenty of intense graphical effects. I was quite worried that it wouldn’t run so well on my machine. Thankfully, this benchmark put those fears to rest with some very reassuring results.
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On the recommended High preset (which uses FSR super-resolution sampling by default) at 1080p resolution, my PC averaged 89 fps throughout the scene. This included peaks of 102 fps in less busy moments, as well as some barely noticeable dips to 23 fps. Overall, a brilliant performance, and certainly better than I expected given my lower-priced Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 GPU.
In fact, performance remained consistently excellent even when I enabled ray tracing. On the same high preset with ray tracing enabled and medium settings, frame rates averaged 54 fps, with almost no noticeable drop. Lower performance than before, but still pleasantly playable and with a noticeable improvement in the quality of reflective surfaces like the water in rivers.
While this is definitely a good sign and indicates a quality PC port, these results should still be taken with a grain of salt. As noted on the benchmark’s store page, “the complexity and variability of gaming scenarios” means that the “benchmark results may not fully reflect the actual gaming experience and final performance.”
If you are not getting the performance you want in the PC Benchmark tool, you should keep in mind that Black Myth: Wukong will also be available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
