1080p, 1440p, 4K Tested Forza Horizon 6 is one of the best-looking racing games yet, but max settings and RT can crush modern GPUs. We tested 47 graphics cards to see what it really takes to run well.
Forza Horizon 6 Benchmark: 47 GPUs Tested
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Thatsdisgusting
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Weird, other reviews had 9070XT as top dog all-around, while 5070Ti under delivered big time. Gimped 4090 is common everywhere though. And too-good-to-be-true 5080. Neural shaders much?
1100 data points and they still didn't run it the specific way I want so they obviously don't know what they are doing.
Soo biased with how they point out the card I own gets different numbers from cards I don't own. It's not just about being faster - it's about how a card makes you feel, you know?
Soo biased with how they point out the card I own gets different numbers from cards I don't own. It's not just about being faster - it's about how a card makes you feel, you know?
And as if by magic the 8GB cards perform near identically to the 16GB models. I wonder why. Could it be you’re using standardised benchmark runs rather than imes intentionally designed to bump up VRAM usage?
Inthenstus
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It’s odd that the in-game benchmark doesn’t include much RT. Wouldn’t that imply worse performance than the numbers shown here in actual gameplay?
They said at the end there’s a follow up article coming with specifics on how to optimize different GPUs and settings for visual fidelity. I can imagine that doing this test suite 47 times was a massive task.
poshflamingos
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You're right, Steve has no idea what he's doing. All the tests were done with a 9800X3D, who pairs entry-level/mid-range GPUs with a $500 CPU? The tests should be done with MY processor instead, so I can see how the game runs on MY system.
Your snark misses the mark. Far more people will pair a $500 CPU with a $750 GPU, than will pair a $200 CPU with a $3500 GPU. Steve is actually testing a fairly common combination here.
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Rational people buy a CPU and GPU that is x3 times mor expensive than the CPU, like I do.
kingmustard
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If it helps, current (mid-May 2026) UK pricing:
£2,900 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
£1,090 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
£790 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
£600 - AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
£500 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
£480 - AMD Radeon RX 9070
£470 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
£380 - AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
£2,900 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
£1,090 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
£790 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
£600 - AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
£500 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
£480 - AMD Radeon RX 9070
£470 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
£380 - AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
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This is GPU test my friend, NOT a test of entire assemblies..
You have to test with one CPU, Is that CPU supposed to be a Ryzen 5600?
No you need strong game CPU.
it helps me still not want to buy a graphics card. It helps me stick to playing older games.
The market is so effed... Add to that and RAM and storage prices. At this point I'll have to write my current system into my will because it doesn't look like it'll ever be replaced.
A race to see who dies first, me or my PC.
PierreJG
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I am upset as there is no AMD framegen and ms has been licking Nvidia and Intels boots for way to long but the game self is well optimized. I have an RX6600 with Raytracing medium settings high but a few settings customized, and outside of town I get between 90-120 fps although I am using the internal fps meter and am not sure how accurate it is. Inside town it can go from 53-70fps.
I Lock the game at 60fps either way. One thing I do notice is when I play for a long period. 1h+ my game has some minor stutter. This may be the vram limitation though but it eventually go away after 20-30min so very weird. One place I do have a lot of lag is when it goes from video to game play. It will go down to under 30fps for a few seconds and then return to normal. Have to give credit for the optimization I played Gears of War 4 on a FX4170 and 1050TI just fine.
I Lock the game at 60fps either way. One thing I do notice is when I play for a long period. 1h+ my game has some minor stutter. This may be the vram limitation though but it eventually go away after 20-30min so very weird. One place I do have a lot of lag is when it goes from video to game play. It will go down to under 30fps for a few seconds and then return to normal. Have to give credit for the optimization I played Gears of War 4 on a FX4170 and 1050TI just fine.
Has anyone here paid for early access? I can’t be bothered to fork out for the hostage payment, excited as I am for the new Forza.
Also disappointed that the 4090 seems to be lagging in optimization a bit, since it should be much stronger than the 5080, but whatever. Not going to fork out for a new gen card at these prices.
Looking forward to the optimization article.
Also disappointed that the 4090 seems to be lagging in optimization a bit, since it should be much stronger than the 5080, but whatever. Not going to fork out for a new gen card at these prices.
Looking forward to the optimization article.
Which other reviews? Random garbage youtubers with zero credibility? Techpowerup shows the exact same thing as Techspot:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/forza-horizon-6-performance-benchmark/5.html
9070 XT does well for what it is honestly.
If you drop below 60 fps you don't need to bother about Frame Gen anyway. You need to be at 60 fps minimum at all times, preferably 90 fps, if you want FG to work well without feeling the input lag. FG works very well when base fps is ~90 with close to zero input lag. At 40-50 fps, you will feel it. Talking 1% low fps here.
Please show non-Native fps as no one will be running the game without using DLSS/FSR/FG. Native speeds are pretty useless tbh.
llamapanda
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Speak for yourself. I play exclusively in native and immediately went straight to the chart results for my setup results to see the maximum settings I could play it at, before leaning on trick tech to trade quality for more performance.
Thatsdisgusting
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When I wrote that, I've meant TPU.
They've updated their tests, I clearly remember 5070Ti onpar with 9070.
Tbh, I didn't read all that but I'm running the game at 8K2K (7680x2160) on my Samsung 57" monitor at 80fps which I'm perfectly happy with.
Specs: Intel Core Ultra 9 285K overclocked to 5.6GHz on all physical cores and 4.9GHz on the efficiency cores.
An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB Graphics Card also overclocked.
Also, 2x24GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB 8400MHz DDR5
Specs: Intel Core Ultra 9 285K overclocked to 5.6GHz on all physical cores and 4.9GHz on the efficiency cores.
An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB Graphics Card also overclocked.
Also, 2x24GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB 8400MHz DDR5
Great test. Just goes to show how much better results you can get with a dedicated engine rather than forcing UE5 down everybody's throat. I would have loved to see some CPU results, but I realize it was a huge test already. Maybe they can do a cpu test at some point.
Wish y'all would share what settings were used. My 7900 XTX get's 131 FPS average at 4K Native on the High preset (could be higher with a better CPU), 109 FPS on the Ultra preset, and 100 FPS on Extreme preset (which is better than the 4090 tested here). 117 FPS Avg with my "optimized" settings of High preset with Extreme Car LOD, Environmental Texture, Geometry, and Volumetric fog, with Ultra particle effects so street race smoke isn't blocky, as I've found on lower settings. This is with a 5950X PBO tuned with SMT off running 3733Mhz CL14-14-14-24 timings. I found SMT on/off to make a huge difference in the .1% lows with this CPU going from 43 FPS avg .1% lows to 87 FPS avg .1% lows, as well increased overall FPS by 5FPS at my "optimized" settings. I also use the AMD driver fluid motion frames to get over my monitor's 144hz limit to make things a little smoother, as well help to basically eliminate the TAA smearing. Having such high FPS starting out, I don't get many noticeable fake frame artifacts, and only really ever noticeable with the UI. I've been playing since launch, and haven't really compared, until recently where I saw a 5080 getting worse performance than I was at the Ultra preset with a 9800X3D. This game has plays great, and have had over 100 hours so far without a single crash. (knock on wood)
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