Forza Horizon 5 v 1.533: PC Performance Benchmarks for Graphics Cards and Processors
| BASIC INFORMATION ON THE GAME |
Released : Nov 9 2021
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.
| NEW IN TESTS - GEFORCE RTX 4090 / Core i9 13900KF |
Our test now includes the GBGIGABYTE GEFORCE RTX 4090 24 GB , courtesy of GIGABYTE .
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition now participates in our test , kindly provided to us by ARTLINE . This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2600 MHz, has 16384 stream processors and 24 gigabytes of video memory.
Also in our test participates INTEL Core i9-13900KF , kindly provided to us by ARTLINE . At the moment, the top gaming processor in the Intel line.
This time, the top-end video card from ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4080 OC Edition (ROG-STRIX-RTX4080-O16G-GAMING) participates in our test . This video card is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, operates at a frequency of 2750 MHz, has 9728 stream processors and 16 gigabytes of video memory.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
In this review, we present a test of the Forza Horizon 5 game, which was tested on the current families of GEFORCE RTX and RADEON RX video cards that support hardware ray tracing.
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.
Forza Horizon 5 has received a major update that includes upsampling technologies such as AMD FSR 2.2 and DLSS 2.4. While ray tracing was previously limited to ForzaVista mode, the latest update brings Ultra and Extreme ray tracing presets that also work in photo mode, freecam, and racing.
| ADVANCED GAME SETTINGS |
Forza Horizon 5 has a wide range of graphics settings. We have both basic and advanced settings. Recently, ray tracing has been added to the options.
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 GEFORCE GTX and RADEON RX video cards that do not support hardware ray tracing.
| RT ON/OFF |
| DLSS/FSR |
Well, MSAA 8X looks better than FSR and DLSS in terms of clarity...
| TEST PART |
| Test configuration | |
| test stands |
GIGABYTE Z590 VISION |
| multimedia equipment |
Power Supply Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL40 KingstonFURY Beast |
| 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 resolutions of 1920x1080 , 2560x1600 , 3840x2160 at extreme graphics quality settings with ray tracing .
| 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 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 productive CPU in this game and is 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 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s level . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti solutions .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6600 or GeForce RTX 2060s . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 6800 solutions or GeForce RTX 3080 .
At a resolution of 3840x2160, an average FPS of 25 frames was shown by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2070s . A minimum FPS of at least 25 frames can be provided by video cards of the level Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2080s . A comfortable average FPS of 60 frames can be provided by Radeon RX 6950 XT or GeForce RTX 4080 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, 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 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 8 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 8 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 8 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 9 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , video memory consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 9 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 9 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 10 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 3840x2160 , video memory consumption for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 8 gigabytes, with 12 gigabytes 10 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 10 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 11 gigabytes .
| 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 with the results of 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 3100 or Core i 3 10100 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second , and Ryzen 5 3100 or Core i 3 10100 solutions can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames per second .
When using AM D video cards, Ryzen 5 3100 or Core i 3 10100 processors showed an acceptable rate of at least 25 frames per second , and Ryzen 5 3100 or Core i 3 10100 solutions can provide an FPS rate of at least 60 frames per second .
GameGPU
The game can download up to 16 threads. The game uses 8 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was conducted on the base configuration Core i 9 13900K with 32 GB DDR5 6400 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 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 consumption of RAM for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 12 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabytes, with 24 gigabytes 11 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 2560x1440 , the consumption of RAM for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 13 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 11 gigabytes .
At a resolution of 3840x2160 , the consumption of RAM for video cards with 8 gigabytes is 13 gigabytes , with 12 gigabytes 12 gigabytes , with 16 gigabytes 11 gigabytes with 24 gigabytes 11 gigabytes .
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