Black Myth: Wukong has become one of the most challenging games of the current generation mainly thanks to the implementation of ray tracing. With this technology activated, the game is able to bring the Radeon RX 7900 XTX to its kneesa graphics card that is the current peak of AMD’s offer.

In Radeon RX 7900 rasterization RDNA 3 is worse than Ada Lovelace’s architecture in this type of load, both at the level of raw performance and specific optimizations.

We have already seen this reality in several games, Alan Wake 2 was one of the most recent, but the truth is that with Black Myth: Wukong there is a difference between the two architectures reached a new extreme it did not leave anyone indifferent and the performance of the Radeon RX 7900

Radeon RX 7900 XTX does not achieve acceptable smoothness in 1080p

And that’s a problem, because we’re talking about a graphics card that competes with the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER in terms of price, while in this title it only achieves averaged 29 FPS with scaling enabled and frame generation while the NVIDIA graphics card is recording averaged 87 FPSall in 1440p resolution with ray tracing enabled at maximum quality.

The 8 GB GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, which costs less than 400 euros, reaches the average 36 frames per second with the same configuration and GeForce RTX 4060, which was available for less than 300 euros, achieves on average 31 FPS. Graphics cards with 8 GB of graphics memory only struggle in 4K, a resolution in which it is already necessary to have at least 12 GB if we have ray tracing activated.

These results just confirm what I’ve told you on more than one occasion that discrediting a graphics card just because of the amount of graphics memory it has It’s a huge mistake and that the GeForce RTX 4060 is nowhere near the monstrous monster that some media and YouTubers have tried to foist on you.

Performance in rasterization: the situation is normalized

Turning off ray tracing returns the water to normal and the performance figures are more in line with what we’ve seen in other games, though GeForce RTX 40 performs better than their AMD equivalents. It’s understandable, since after all it’s an NVIDIA-promoted game that will have specific optimizations for GeForce RTX.

For example, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX ranks slightly behind the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4060 beats Radeon RX 7600 XT by a significant margin, putting it almost on par with the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. The GeForce RTX 4060 performs so well that at 1440p it is only 3 FPS behind the Radeon RX 6700 XT.

To play Black Myth: Wukong with guarantees we will need at least one GeForce RTX 4060and we will have to resort to NVIDIA DLSS 3 to achieve more than 60 FPS at 1080p resolution and maximum quality. Ray tracing is very demanding and has a big impact on performance, so if we have a Radeon RX 6000 or Radeon RX 7000, it seems the smartest thing to do is to disable it.