Nvidia bundles Black Myth: Wukong with RTX 40-series GPUs — RTX 4060 and RTX 4050 are not eligible, though

Black Myth: Wukong
Black Myth: Wukong (Image credit: Nvidia)

Today, Nvidia posted a pair of blog posts to its site detailing a new Black Myth: Wukong game bundle with RTX 40-series GPUs (desktop and laptop) ranging from the GeForce RTX 4090 to GeForce RTX 4070, which are among the best graphics cards. The chipmaker also detailed DLSS 3 and Nvidia Reflex updates ahead of the game's release, among others. 

Black Myth: Wukong is set to release on August 19, and beyond leveraging Journey to the West's Monkey King, Sun Wukong (whose most major modern influence can be seen in Dragon Ball's Son Goku), Black Myth will also be leveraging path tracing, or "full ray tracing" per Nvidia's marketing. This makes the mid-range to high-end RTX 40-series GPUs that the game is being bundled with quite the natural fit since you're unlikely to be able to run it well without them— and DLSS 3 Frame Generation with Reflex should help too, particularly with all those ray-traced bells and whistles active.

Fortunately, the game is still playable without ray tracing enabled (unlike, say, Metro Exodus Remastered), and the minimum RT-enabled spec should still run fine on an RTX 3060 if you don't mind targeting 30 FPS, per Nvidia's official system requirements.

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  • If Wukong's Path Tracing is anything like Cyberpunk's or Alan Wake's, then my 4090 will have a VERY hard time at native 4K Ultra.
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