Black Myth Wukong has barely been out a month yet the game has already garnered critical acclaim, and beaten many of today’s AAA video game titles to the top of the totem pole of popularity. Over in its home country of China, the success of the game seems to have inadvertently triggered a buying spree of PC components among Chinese gamers.
The reason for the surge in PC component purchases? For the simplest of reasons: to play Black Myth Wukong on PC, at its highest graphics presets. That, as you can imagine, includes visual enhancements such as ray-tracing and upscaling, which in turn, means a surge in the demand for GPUs such as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 Series cards, primarily.
If you’re not sure why NVIDIA’s GPUs are key in their demand, it’s because the GPU brand had partnered up with the developers of Black Myth Wukong, Game Science, to develop the game based on the brand’s hardware. It’s a situation of delicious irony because NVIDIA and its consumer-level GeForce GPUs have been under heavy sanctions by the US government. As a quick primer, the US has been putting heavy sanctions on many chipmakers, banning them from dealing with companies in China directly. Prior to the ban coming into effect, NVIDIA had downgraded its flagship card, the RTX 4090, into a watered-down version of the card called the RTX 4090D, in order to meet with the requirements of its home country’s restriction then. Before the full-on ban came into effect.
(Source: CNA)
