Forza Horizon 5: PC Performance Benchmarks for Graphics Cards and Processors
| BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME |
Released : Nov 9 2021 (Nov 5, 2021 - Premium Edition)
Genre : Racing / Arcade / Simulator / Open World / 3D
Developer : Playground Games
Publisher : 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 with crazy races in a huge open world. The new part follows the ideas laid down in previous versions, but at the same time brings 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.
First of all, it's the largest map ever, and it's also highly detailed, with hundreds of miles of roads and rugged terrain, as well as scenic landscapes. The above is about Mexico. This region was chosen due to the diversity of natural areas. Players will be able to visit such colorful places as the jungle, endless deserts, snowy mountains, sea coast, huge cities, bridges and much more. Everywhere you can find interesting beautiful places, as well as an abundance of racing competitions and other content.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
In this subsection of our review, the main graphical aspects of this game are revealed. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphics settings and the quality of the development of the main visual aspects.
| SUPPORTED OC AND GRAPHICS API |
Forza Horizon 5 is only supported on Windows 10/11.
The priority and primary graphics API for Forza Horizon 5 is DirectX 12 .
| GAME ENGINE |
Forza Horizon 5 runs on ForzaTech's own engine, which makes full use of DirectX 12. The engine was developed to be used by Turn 10 Studios in the Forza series games. Playground Games took it as a base and made some improvements, adapting the game to the open world and to modern hardware.
While working on Forza Horizon 4, the developers used a technology called photogrammetry. Its peculiarity lies in the possibility of transferring images from high quality photos to ready-made 3D models. That is why in the game the objects look so realistic and as close as possible to the real world.
Forza Horizon 5 uses High Dynamic Range Imaging.
| 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.
| DIFFERENT QUALITY MODES |
| GENERAL VISUAL DESIGN AND GAME PHYSICS |
The graphics in Forza Horizon 5 are top notch:
Well, then we will go directly to the gaming tests and determine what impact this game has on modern computer hardware.
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
GIGABYTE X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI MSI MPG Z490 GAMING CARBON WIFI |
| multimedia equipment |
Power Supply Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 |
| Software configuration |
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| operating system | Windows 20H2 |
| Graphics driver |
Nvidia GeForce/ION Driver Release 496.49 AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 21.11.1 |
| Monitoring programs |
MSI Afterburner Action! FRAPS |
Our video cards were tested at resolutions of 1920x1080, 2560x1600 and 3840x2160 at maximum graphics quality settings.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX and GTX graphics cards provided by LLC Business Development Center.
| GPU TEST |
In the test of video cards, the default resolution is 1920x1080, other resolutions are added and removed manually. You can also remove and add any positions of video cards. You can also choose 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 performed on the most productive CPU and scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
At a resolution of 1920x1080, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 590 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the adeon RX 590 or GeForce GTX 1070 level . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2070s solutions .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 590 or GeForce GTX 1070 level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce GTX 1070 level . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by the Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080s solutions. .
At a resolution of 3840x2160, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the Radeon RX 6600 XT or GeForce GTX 1080 level. A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the Radeon VII or GeForce RTX 2070 s level . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by GeForce RTX 3080 solutions.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of the video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the MSI Afterburner program. The results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA at resolutions of 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 with various anti-aliasing settings were taken as the indicator. By default, the graph displays the most up-to-date solutions. Other graphics cards are added and removed from the chart at the reader's request.
GameGPU
At a resolution of 1920x1080, video memory consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 7200 megabytes, with 10 gigabytes 7500 megabytes, with 12 gigabytes 7700 megabytes, with 16 gigabytes 8600 megabytes .
At a resolution of 2560x1440, video memory consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 7500 megabytes, with 10 gigabytes 8100 megabytes, with 12 gigabytes 8300 megabytes, with 16 gigabytes 9000 megabytes .
At a resolution of 3840x2160 , the consumption of video memory for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 8000 megabytes, with 10 gigabytes 9200 megabytes, with 12 gigabytes 9300 megabytes , with 16 gigabytes 9700 megabytes.
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920x1080. In the processor test, you can remove and add any positions of the processors. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance to the given processor tests (by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most productive NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales up to lower models.
When using NVIDIA video cards , Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames , and solutions of the Ryzen 7 1800 or Core i 3 10100 level can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames .
When using AMD video cards , Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i 7 4770 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames , and solutions of the Ryzen 5 1600 or Core i 7 4770 level can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames .
GameGPU
The game can download up to 16 threads. The game uses 8 cores as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was conducted on the base configuration of the Core i 9 11900K with the amount of pre-installed memory 16 GB DDR4 3733 MGz. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various video cards without running extraneous applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
GameGPU
At a resolution of 1920x1080 , the system's RAM consumption is a video card with 8 gigabytes 10000 megabytes, 10 gigabytes 9400 megabytes , with 12 gigabytes 10000 megabytes, with 16 gigabytes 12000 megabytes .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , the system's RAM consumption is a video card with 8 gigabytes 10000 megabytes, 10 gigabytes 9500 megabytes , with 12 gigabytes 10000 megabytes , with 16 gigabytes 12000 megabytes .
At a resolution of 3840x2160 , the RAM consumption of a system with a video card with 8 gigabytes is 10800 megabytes, 10 gigabytes is 9800 megabytes , 12 gigabytes is 10,000 megabytes , with 16 gigabytes is 13,000 megabytes .
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