Ray Tracing Black Myth Wukong
Black Myth Wukong is set to be a visual tour-de-force, thanks to its implementation of full ray tracing, also known as path tracing. This means ray tracing is used to render all lighting, reflections, and shadows within its fantastical world. Ray-traced reflections enhance the serene beauty of water features and the shine of polished surfaces, while ray-traced shadows add depth and realism to every scene. Ray-traced indirect lighting allows light to bounce naturally, creating a more believable environment. Even the game’s particle effects, often a challenge for ray tracing, are rendered with impressive accuracy.
In Black Myth Wukong at 1440p, we find a pretty strong improvement of 32% over the RTX 4090 and a mental 394% more frames than the 7900 XTX, but this is because the AMD-based card did so badly in this game.
It’s very much the same story at 4K, though with slightly better disparity, as the RTX 5090 now gives us a 38% generational uplift over the RTX 4090, and a frankly absurd 525% increase over the 7900 XTX, though we are comparing 50 FPS to a measly 8 on the AMD card.
