Forza Horizon 4 Benchmarked: Graphics Performance Tested

[Julio Franco]

Racing title Forza Horizon 4 is arriving to digital store shelves this week worldwide (October 2) and to work out what kind of GPU power you'll need to enjoy it we've tested about 50 graphics cards, so we have a big GPU benchmark incoming.

Read the full article here.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1716-forza-horizon-4-gpu-benchmarks/

 

[money]

My 960 still beast

 

[Vulcanproject]

It's a very flexible game helped by the fact it looks fantastic even when you lower a few settings.

A GTX1050 can comfortably beat an Xbox One on settings (that console doesn't do ultra). A GTX1050ti can give you 1080/60 at reasonable settings that still look great.

A GTX1060 is easily matching what an Xbox One X can do. 1080/60 ultra 4K/30 ultra? No problem.

Anything better ends up with a stunning experience. GTX1080 is just about good enough for 4K and a solid 60FPS, with an overclock and maybe minor setting tweaks to hand.

That's a lot of testing! This is a generally excellent port right from the start. I only expect performance to improve a little and minor bugs to be ironed out. This game is essential for any racing fans on PC.

 

[Colonel Blimp]

Great work peeps.

My take is that my poor old 280x is going to have to be replaced very soon, shame.

Also, how much worse is the 1060 3gb compared to the 6gb?
Pity those who bought one.

 

[AlanZer0]

Thanks TechSpot Looks like my 1070 at 2k should be great! Can't wait to play tomorrow.

 

[Jon Tseng]

Huh interesting med detail results. Wonder if this thing is playable on Intel HD graphics if you lower resolution/settings...

(before you ask not a maochist - just a GPD Win 2 owner)

 

[Dragonstongue]

No RX 570 8gb ?
testested the 1060 3 and 6gb and RX 580 4 and 8gb but missing the RX 570 8gb for shame
glad to see the 7870 in there, could probably "tweak" some settings to have it run closer to 60 FPS @ 1080p instead of a forced "medium" unless there is not option to adjust things and only use a "flat" setting?

Thank you for the testing, though some of these are not where I expect them to be based on the countless hours of reviews and such I have seen over the years, but kudos if you did in fact run every single one of these cards and not just used a "estimated" given performance grading system ^.^

Not sure where you have seen Vega 56 for less money then a 1080 however, they have almost since day of launch sky rocket in pricing and have yet to be MSRP/SEP from what I have seen?

 

[ShagnWagn]

"Forza Horizon 4 PC minimum requirements
OS: Windows 10 version 15063.0 or higher."

Only Win10? Well, Microsoft is losing out on my $60+, and the majority of other computers, that are still Win7. Your loss. k bye

Thank you TS for sharing differences in video cards anyway.

 

[Nobina]

I played the demo on my 1050Ti and I gotta say I get a bit more FPS than in that benchmark at 1080p ultra. What's even better is that when the frames drop a bit it still feels very smooth and input is responsive.

 

[Dimitrios]

Finally someone put's an AMD RX560 in benchmarks. GURU3D never showed that damn card and a few of other tech sites never showed that card in benchmarks if they did it was the 2GB model. Also impressed you had the AMD 7790 card as well since I own both. Every day TECHSPOT is becoming the best tech site for everyone not just the elite hobbyist.

 

[CaptainTom]

My 960 still beast

Erhhh. It loses to the RX 560 and 380X. Idk if I call that a "beast".

 

[GreenNova343]

Hmmm...is it because this was pre-release testing that we didn't get any CPU testing done yet? Or is that coming later?

 

[moobg]

Not sure where you have seen Vega 56 for less money then a 1080 however, they have almost since day of launch sky rocket in pricing and have yet to be MSRP/SEP from what I have seen?

Well, amazon right now for one. Vega 56 has been dropping in price for a while. I got mine on eBay for just over $300 a few weeks ago.

 

[jarql]

Great work peeps.

My take is that my poor old 280x is going to have to be replaced very soon, shame.

Also, how much worse is the 1060 3gb compared to the 6gb?
Pity those who bought one.

on my gtx 1060/3gb, I have 70-80 on high settings. all you have to do is set the textures to medium / high, as in most games, and then this card does not lose much to gtx 1060/6gb. if you exceed the available amount of memory then the performance decreases as in this test here

 

[Peylix]

"Forza Horizon 4 PC minimum requirements
OS: Windows 10 version 15063.0 or higher."

Only Win10? Well, Microsoft is losing out on my $60+, and the majority of other computers, that are still Win7. Your loss. k bye

Thank you TS for sharing differences in video cards anyway.

Considering W10 has significant gaming performance over W7.

It's actually your loss. Lol

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

 

[Lionvibez]

"Forza Horizon 4 PC minimum requirements
OS: Windows 10 version 15063.0 or higher."

Only Win10? Well, Microsoft is losing out on my $60+, and the majority of other computers, that are still Win7. Your loss. k bye

Thank you TS for sharing differences in video cards anyway.

lol have you seen MS's networth they won't be crying about missing $60 from you...

 

[ZackL04]

Great work peeps.

My take is that my poor old 280x is going to have to be replaced very soon, shame.

Also, how much worse is the 1060 3gb compared to the 6gb?
Pity those who bought one.

Horizon 3 was a vram hog, Im sure that is still somewhat the case but with improved scaleability in this game

 

[Nightfire]

No RX 570 8gb ?
testested the 1060 3 and 6gb and RX 580 4 and 8gb but missing the RX 570 8gb for shame
glad to see the 7870 in there, could probably "tweak" some settings to have it run closer to 60 FPS @ 1080p instead of a forced "medium" unless there is not option to adjust things and only use a "flat" setting?

Thank you for the testing, though some of these are not where I expect them to be based on the countless hours of reviews and such I have seen over the years, but kudos if you did in fact run every single one of these cards and not just used a "estimated" given performance grading system ^.^

Not sure where you have seen Vega 56 for less money then a 1080 however, they have almost since day of launch sky rocket in pricing and have yet to be MSRP/SEP from what I have seen?

Perhaps we could use some common sense before 'shaming' the editors who put so many hours in this.

There was no diffrence between the 4gb and 8gb rx580 so why would it matter with the rx 570??

For this game, 4gb seems to be the minimium before a performance hit at ultra settings.

For medium settings at 1080p 3gb or even 2gb would probably be enough. We sort of see this with tje 7870 matching the 7950.

edit: Then again the 1050 3gb is better than the 2gb so I would say 3gb is the minimium for medium settings.

 

[Nightfire]

It seems this game just doesnt like older hardware. Pascal easily beats Maxwell, Polaris outshines Hawaii, and Tonga is much better than Tahiti.

 

[Forebode]

Please rename the article to graphic cards and 1 cpu benchmark. "5 GHz with 32GB of DDR4-3400 memory" really.. Where's the AMD offering? Using an overclocked chip with 32gb of memory we only, we don't know where the performance floor is. Great a 1060 gets just under 60fps @ 1080p. but who would have a 5gb with 32gb memory and a 1060? That person with an aged box or a stock cpu.. might be mislead. And if it's the argument that the cpu doesn't really matter.. where's that evidence?

as for "GTX 980 looks a little lackluster, getting beaten by pretty much all the mid-range AMD offerings such as the R9 Nano and 390" The GTX980 is 4 years old, the 390 is 3 years old, being on roughly the same tier.

Whats your margin of error? Much of the writing is pointing out how something beat another, yet they're 1 frame faster...

 

[Raytrace3D]

This was a great article. Really love seeing those older cards on there. Puts things in perspective. I'll be receiving my GTX 1080 Ti in the mail tomorrow. Can't wait! Good to know that it'll more than double my framerates over my 4-year old GTX 980.

 

[ZackL04]

Steve, I went out and got a 1070 yesterday and have been comparing it to my 980ti in this game. Both overclocked. I am not getting the same results as you and have a couple questions.

When you run the benchmark, are you running it fully unlocked? I have way more smoothly charted results if I turn off vsync but choose the 60fps option (smooth arch and way less dframe skips) Id really just like to know how I can replicate your results with the 980ti and 1070 to back my purchase...

You make the 1070 look 20-30% faster and I cannot replicate that. I am using an 8400 but with 3200mhz ram, maybe my cpu is my limiting factor..

 

[mcborge]

Looks good, I wouldn't mind hooning around the Cotswolds in a mk2 Escort myself. I actually owned a real mk2 Escort but I didn't do much hooning around in it, the fuzz don't like it when you do that, lol.

 

[Black Slasher]

Please rename the article to graphic cards and 1 cpu benchmark. "5 GHz with 32GB of DDR4-3400 memory" really.. Where's the AMD offering? Using an overclocked chip with 32gb of memory we only, we don't know where the performance floor is. Great a 1060 gets just under 60fps @ 1080p. but who would have a 5gb with 32gb memory and a 1060? That person with an aged box or a stock cpu.. might be mislead. And if it's the argument that the cpu doesn't really matter.. where's that evidence?

as for "GTX 980 looks a little lackluster, getting beaten by pretty much all the mid-range AMD offerings such as the R9 Nano and 390" The GTX980 is 4 years old, the 390 is 3 years old, being on roughly the same tier.

Whats your margin of error? Much of the writing is pointing out how something beat another, yet they're 1 frame faster...

Because it is a GPU benchmark and you use the most powerful CPU so you can avoid CPU boottleneck with the objective to... er... benchmark a GPU?

 

[Nightfire]

Please rename the article to graphic cards and 1 cpu benchmark. "5 GHz with 32GB of DDR4-3400 memory" really.. Where's the AMD offering? Using an overclocked chip with 32gb of memory we only, we don't know where the performance floor is. Great a 1060 gets just under 60fps @ 1080p. but who would have a 5gb with 32gb memory and a 1060? That person with an aged box or a stock cpu.. might be mislead. And if it's the argument that the cpu doesn't really matter.. where's that evidence?

as for "GTX 980 looks a little lackluster, getting beaten by pretty much all the mid-range AMD offerings such as the R9 Nano and 390" The GTX980 is 4 years old, the 390 is 3 years old, being on roughly the same tier.

Whats your margin of error? Much of the writing is pointing out how something beat another, yet they're 1 frame faster...

Why introduce more variables? A CPU review will Show what you are looking for.

However, Some conclusions can still be made. Assuming that this game uses all 6 cores (doubtful), 5 ghz is still not enough to bottle neck the 2080 ti. That card gets 160 fps. This means a CPU half that speed will get At LEAST 80 fps. In other words, the only people that MIGHT be cpu bound are those running bulldozer or worse.

Margin of error or not, this was a bad showing for the GTX980.