Can My GTX 1650 Run Black Myth: Wukong? FPS Estimate & System Requirements (2026)

The GTX 1650 falls below Black Myth: Wukong's comfort zone: only about 24 FPS at 1080p even on low settings. We would not recommend this pairing without a GPU upgrade.

On a GTX 1650, aim for below a comfortable 1080p in Black Myth: Wukong. The GTX 1650 falls below Black Myth: Wukong's comfort zone: only about 24 FPS at 1080p even on low settings. We would not recommend this pairing without a GPU upgrade.

Black Myth: Wukong is GPU-bound, so the GTX 1650's raw speed decides your frame rate. To lift it, Wukong is the UE5 showcase — turn off full RT, drop hair quality and fog; it is GPU-bound. The single biggest lever is render-resolution scaling / the game's upscaler — dropping internal resolution to ~85% while outputting 1080p often buys 15–25% FPS with little visible loss.

The GTX 1650 carries only 4 GB of VRAM. Black Myth: Wukong wants more for Ultra textures, so cap texture/texture-streaming quality one step below Ultra to avoid VRAM-spillover stutter. That change is often worth more than any shadow tweak.

The limiting factor for this specific pairing is VRAM first, then raw GPU speed. At demand tier 7/9, Black Myth: Wukong can exceed the GTX 1650's 4 GB of VRAM at Ultra settings, causing stutter before the core is maxed. Cap textures and the GTX 1650 runs the title cleanly.

Black Myth: Wukong is assigned a hardware-demand tier 7/9 from its published requirements (or release era + genre). Each GPU has a relative-performance index (RTX 4090 = 100, source TechPowerUp). FPS ≈ 60 × (GPU index ÷ required index)^0.85, then scaled ×0.66 for 1440p and ×0.38 for 4K. FPS figures are editorial estimates from a transparent demand-tier model (TechPowerUp relative-performance indices, retrieved 2026-08-29), not benchmarks. Verify with your own hardware.