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 with raytracing enabled, the 4070 SUPER and 5070 are separated by just over margin of error with the newer card packing 5% more performance while also coming in with a 25% generational uplift over the RTX 4070 and 100% higher performance over the RTX 3070 so raytracing at least gives us some stronger gains overall.
At 4K, we’re now looking at 6% higher performance over the 4070 SUPER, 27% over the 4070 non-SUPER, and 90% over the RTX 3070 and this puts it just 1 FPS behind the 4070 Ti, though as our figures are much lower, sometimes in the teens, percentages can look artificially inflated.
