| BASIC GAME INFORMATION |
Year of construction: 9 Nov. 2021
Genre: Racing / Arcade / Simulator / Open World / 3D
developer: Playground Games
Publishing house: Xbox Game Studios
Forza Horizon 5 is an open world arcade racing game. It is already the fifth part of the popular Forza Horizon series, which stands out for its crazy races in a huge open world. The new part follows the ideas laid down in previous versions, but at the same time introduces many improvements, as well as completely new interesting elements never seen before. The game is positioned as the largest in the series in all respects.
Testing of later generation video cards that support hardware ray tracing can be found at this link.
| IRON IN TESTS |
The company kindly helped us with all possible support in expanding the test stand for this type of testing GIGABYTE .
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
In this review we present a game test Forza Horizon 5, tested on families of video cards GEFORCE GTX и RADEON RX, which do not support hardware ray tracing. Also in testing we use already outdated CPU models up to the level Core i9 9900K и Ryzen 7 2700X.
This subsection of our review highlights the main graphical aspects of this game. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphic settings and the quality of development of the main visual aspects.
| SUPPORTED OS AND GRAPHICS API |
Forza Horizon 5 is only supported Windows 10/11.
The priority and primary graphics API for Forza Horizon 5 is DirectX 12.
| GAME ENGINE |
Forza Horizon 5 runs on the proprietary ForzaTech engine, which takes full advantage of DirectX 12. The engine was developed for use by Turn 10 Studios in Forza games. Playground Games took it as a basis and made some improvements, adapting the game to the open world and modern hardware.
While working on Forza Horizon 4, the developers used a technology called photogrammetry. Its peculiarity is the ability to transfer images from photographs in high quality to finished 3D models. This is why the objects in the game look so realistic and as close to the real world as possible.
Forza Horizon 5 uses High Dynamic Range Imaging technology.
| ADVANCED GAME SETTINGS |
Forza Horizon 5 has a wide range of graphics settings. We have both basic and advanced settings.
Below we have provided screenshots of the game at various graphics settings, where our readers can see the difference between the minimum and maximum graphics quality settings available on video cards GEFORCE GTX и RADEON RX, which do not support hardware ray tracing.
| DIFFERENT QUALITY MODES |
| VARIOUS SMOOTHING MODES |
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 power supply 16 GB DDR3 2133 CL11 16 GB DDR4 3200 CL15 16 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 |
| Multimedia equipment | |
| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 10 21H2/ Windows 11(Alder Lake) |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 526.98 WHQL AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 22.11.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner |
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes: 1920×1080, 2560×1600, 3840×2160 very high graphics quality settings with anti-aliasing FXAA, based on the optimal testing of the generation of video cards GEFORCE GTX и RADEON RX.
| GPU TEST |
In the video card test, the default resolution is 1920×1080; other resolutions are added and removed manually. You can also remove and add any positions of video cards. You can also select any of our test processors from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given video card tests (by default, the most productive solution is selected). The test is carried out on the most powerful CPU in this game and is scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
- Very high
When resolved 1920×1080 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 6500 or GeForce GTX 1060. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 470 or GeForce GTX 1060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.
When resolved 2560×1440 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 470 or GeForce GTX 1060. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 570 or GeForce GTX 1060. A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by solutions Radeon RX 5700 or GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
When resolved 3840×2160 average FPS of 25 frames showed level video cards Radeon RX 580 or GeForce GTX 1660. Minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce GTX 1660.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on the results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920×1080, 2560×1440 and 3840×2160 with various anti-aliasing settings. By default, the graph displays the most current solutions. Other video cards are added and removed from the schedule at the request of the reader.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 video memory consumption of video cards с 4-yu a gigabyte will be 4 gigabytes, 6-yu gigabytes will be 6 gigabyte, 8-yu gigabytes will be 5 gigabyte и с 11-yu gigabytes will be 6 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 video memory consumption of video cards с 4-yu a gigabyte will be 4 gigabytes, 6-yu gigabytes will be 6 gigabyte, 8-yu gigabytes will be 6 gigabyte и с 11-yu gigabytes will be 6 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 video memory consumption of video cards с 4-yu a gigabyte will be 4 gigabytes, 6-yu gigabytes will be 6 gigabyte, 8-yu gigabytes will be 6 gigabyte и с 11-yu gigabytes will be 7 gigabyte.
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920×1080. In the processor test, you can remove or add any processor positions. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given processor test results (by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most powerful NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales to low-end models.
- Very high
When using video cards NVIDIA processors showed an acceptable indicator of at least 25 frames per second Ryzen 3 1300 or Core i 3 4330, and an FPS of at least 60 frames per second will be able to provide solutions at the level Ryzen 5 1600 or Core i 7 4770.
When using video cards AMD acceptable figure is not less than 25 frames per second showed processors yzen 3 1300 or Core i 3 4330, and FPS not lower than 60 frames per second will be able to provide level solutions Ryzen 5 1600 or Core i 3 8100 .
- Very high
GameGPU
The game can load up to 16 streams. The game uses 6 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 9900K with 16GB DDR4 3600 MHz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various video cards without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
- Very high
GameGPU
When resolved 1920×1080 RAM consumption for video cards с 4-yu a gigabyte will be 16 gigabytes, 6-yu gigabytes will be 11 gigabyte, 8-yu gigabytes will be 11 gigabyte и с 11-yu gigabytes will be 11 gigabyte.
When resolved 2560×1440 RAM consumption for video cards с 4-yu a gigabyte will be 17 gigabytes, 6-yu gigabytes will be 11 gigabyte, 8-yu gigabytes will be 11 gigabyte и с 11-yu gigabytes will be 11 gigabyte.
When resolved 3840×2160 RAM consumption for video cards с 4-yu a gigabyte will be 18 gigabytes, 6-yu gigabytes will be 12 gigabyte, 8-yu gigabytes will be 11 gigabyte и с 11-yu gigabytes will be 11 gigabyte.
Testing of later generation video cards that support hardware ray tracing can be found at this link.
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