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Overview

Honor of Kings: World has been an NVIDIA partner title since its public technical reveal at Computex 2023 on May 31, 2023. At that event, NVIDIA announced that the game would support both DLSS 3 (including frame generation on GeForce RTX 40-series cards) and ray tracing. The partnership carried through every subsequent public showing and is active in the shipping April 10, 2026 PC launch build.

Computex 2023 Reveal

At Computex 2023 in Taipei, NVIDIA used its GeForce keynote to highlight a batch of upcoming titles committing to DLSS 3 and ray tracing. Honor of Kings: World appeared alongside other Eastern-market games. NVIDIA's GeForce News post on the event presented a 4K gameplay trailer and framed Honor of Kings: World as a showcase title for DLSS 3 frame generation on the then-new RTX 40-series GPUs. This was the first public confirmation that the game was targeting high-end PC hardware, not only mobile performance.

Features at Launch (April 10, 2026)

Feature	Details
NVIDIA DLSS 3	Supported on GeForce RTX 40-series hardware, including frame generation
DLSS Super Resolution	Supported on all RTX cards for upscaling from lower render resolutions
Ray Tracing	Available at launch, targeting reflections, global illumination, and shadows
PC Minimum GPU	NVIDIA GTX 1060 5 GB (ray tracing not available on GTX cards)
PC Recommended GPU	RTX 2060 or higher for ray tracing; RTX 3070 or higher for 1440p high settings
MagicDawn Lighting	Tencent in-house global illumination that layers with NVIDIA features

MagicDawn and NVIDIA Integration

Honor of Kings: World's PC version combines NVIDIA's DLSS and ray tracing stack with Tencent's proprietary MagicDawn global illumination technology. MagicDawn was first publicly presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 in December 2025 by Li Chao, who heads Tencent Games' Frontier Rendering team. MagicDawn is Tencent's own rendering solution, not a replacement for NVIDIA features; on NVIDIA hardware, DLSS and MagicDawn work together to deliver the game's 4K and dynamic-time-of-day visuals. Honor of Kings: World is the first shipped game title using MagicDawn.

Ongoing Relationship

Since the Computex 2023 reveal, Honor of Kings: World has consistently appeared in NVIDIA's Eastern-market marketing. GDC 2025 press demos ran on RTX 40-series PCs in 4K with DLSS 3 and ray tracing enabled. The Gamescom 2025 public demo also ran on RTX PCs. The April 10, 2026 shipping build retains all of these features, and the NVIDIA GeForce driver optimization that was promised at Computex is in place at launch.

Cloud Gaming

Outside of the NVIDIA partnership, Honor of Kings: World also supports Tencent Cloud Gaming, which was included in the February 2026 Zhengming Test (争鸣测试) as one of the test platforms. Cloud access gives players who cannot run the game on local PC or mobile hardware an alternative path to high-quality visuals and should complement the NVIDIA partnership for players on lower-end PCs.

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