Nvidia RTX 5080 Review: Efficiency Gains, Performance Letdown

Black Myth: Wukong is a 2024 action role-playing game developed and published by Game Science. The game is inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West and follows an anthropomorphic monkey based on Sun Wukong from the novel. Black Myth: Wukong was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows on August 20, 2024, with an Xbox Series X/S version to be released at a later date. (Wikipedia).

Engine: Unreal Engine 5. We test using the Cinematic preset, Ray Tracing set to Very High, TSR set to 67% render scale, DXR API.

As for Black Myth: Wukong, this one is another punishing title when path tracing is enabled, and at 1440p the 5080 manages 65fps on average, even when using Quality upscaling. That makes it 13% faster than the 4080 Super, but its 12% slower than the 4090.

4K sees frame rates drop to just 36fps on average, though that works out as an 18% lead over the 4080 Super.

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