Nvidia RTX 5090 Review: Ray Tracing, DLSS 4, and Raw Power

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, TSR set to 100% render scale, DX12 API.

Black Myth: Wukong is next and it shows you how demanding this game is when the fastest consumer graphics card can only manage 87fps at native 1440p using the Cinematic preset! That works out as a 24% bump over the 4090, or a 57% uplift compared to the 4080 Super.

Up at 4K, even the 5090 can't even secure a locked 60fps, we fall just shy to 58fps with the 1% lows at 47fps. That makes the Blackwell flagship 30% faster on average when compared to the 4090.

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