Forza Horizon 6 looks stunning, but our testing shows modern visuals come at a steep VRAM cost. Here's how 8GB and 16GB GPUs compare across a range of settings and resolutions.
Forza Horizon 6 GPU Benchmark: 8GB vs. 16GB VRAM
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I feel so lucky that I got the 5070ti and 32GB RAM before prices exploded. All because I didn't want to wait for black friday last year (I wanted to avoid very long wait times for delivery and fake crappy deals)
And now test a card with a full size PCIE connection please without RT on becaure it’s likely the x8 PCIe spot causing the issue not the 8GB of VRAM. No one is playing this game on a 60Ti card with RT on at 1080p. At least try to hide your bias.
Lew Zealand
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Yeah running a brand-new game at 80 fps at highest quality is like super crazy, right? They should turn that sucker right down to Lowest to get 220 fps and have it look like 2010-era dogcrap.
gamerk2
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That doesn't make even the smallest amount of sense. If the GPU were being crippled by bandwidth, then the card with more VRAM running at more demanding settings would suffer correspondingly more. And we don't see that. And tests of PCI-E bandwidth have shown we haven't really stressed PCI-E 4.0 x16 yet, and even 3.0 x16 can handle 1080p without choking performance.
In other words, I don't believe the author is the one showing bias here.
Charts are easier to extract data from than screenshots...
airbornex
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The "funniest" part of modern GPUs is that we went from arguing whether 8GB was enough for 4K to arguing whether it’s enough for 1080p with upscaling. At this rate the RTX 7060 will launch with 8GB and marketing slides saying AI compression adds "effective VRAM."
I’m keen to know how this game performs on 3080. I have one in my HTPC and with 10GB I am hopeful it’s sufficient to load up the “extreme” textures, without the crippling shown here with the 5060ti.
I think it’s a relevant spec to a lot of people who might be considering a prior gen “80” class card in the used market, versus a new but unavailable or prohibitively priced model.
I think it’s a relevant spec to a lot of people who might be considering a prior gen “80” class card in the used market, versus a new but unavailable or prohibitively priced model.
Becaure it’s not is it it’s running with DLSS. In fact they don’t run a single test without DLSS. In reality you’d be playing at medium no RT. I’d also like to know what PCIE speed they’re running it as the test setup they usually list is mysteriously missing.
That’s literally the opposite of how it works. And this site has an article showing that the 5060Ti 8GB suffers the instant you take it off of PCIE 5.0. The lower VRAM cards suffer more as they lack the bandwidth to stream required textures etc that a higher capacity card wouldn’t need to.
They show bias every time they mention 8GB cards becaure they want them to be worse when in reality they’re just not for the most part. They’ve once again designed tests to jack up VRAM usage and artificially increase the gap between the cards. It’s why the vast majority of tests have RT and they all use DLSS.
There’s also a reason why they’re doing this with a 5060Ti and not a 9060XT and that’s because the 9060XT has a x16 PCIE interface.
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Nintenboy01
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lol they tested different settings WITHOUT RT as well and the 16GB is still quite a bit better in most cases.
Agreed for the most part. This was more of a VRAM versus showcase where showing all this data makes sense. Plus it’s inherited from the video version where the choppiness can be seen more clearly. You will see that’s why we also embedded some in a few sections.
That said, the graphs are coming for the 40+ GPU benchmark feature.
Did I miss it? What CPU is being used?
Also the ARC B580 comes with 12GB RAM. No one is buying that A580 card lol
Also the ARC B580 comes with 12GB RAM. No one is buying that A580 card lol
There are articles stating high settings are not worth it compared to the performance hit. Why not get a GTX 1080 to get some tests with Forza 6, Forza 5 runned great on ultra wide 5700x1080 resolution without dlss. And think I even used high settings. This article sounds a bit shy using only a 5060 and using RT and only stating ram usage
I didn’t say they only tested with RT? I said they tested using DLSS for all tests which amplifies any difference.
Chris Rchr
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This is a nice test, but it's sorely lacking a performance summary table. Having to wade through so many blocks of text just to read percentages is unbearable. It's a shame we have to wait for the article with the 40 GPUs.
Beerfloat
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It's not so much an article as Steve's regular 'we were right' feature. These are not uncommon. Tomorrow we should have something readable.
I would not buy anything below 16 GB VRAM anymore, no matter what resolution you play in. I think the 4080 Super and its 16 GB is not much, and I ran out of VRAM in some cases already, like Cyberpunk with path tracing, or Indiana Jones with path tracing. The 4080 should have had 24 GB, the 5080 definitely. I hate Nvidia for being so stingy with VRAM. Before the 4080, I already had a 6900 XT with 16 GB, and I remember the crying when games like The Last of Us Part 1 and so on had issues on PC... Well, people... If you just had bought more than 8 GB... I had no such issues...
Oh! Says who? You? I don't play any game anymore without ray tracing at the very least. There are people that have different preferences, you know?
What makes me really sad is how people even defend the poor companies for them only providing 8 GB VRAM. How dare they attack the poor companies...! What's wrong with you? It's overdue we leave 8 GB behind us... God damn... It's been here for 12 years! 12!! TWELVE YEARS!
Funnily enough they just released a video benchmarking GPUs using standard methodology and funnily enough when using settings where the 16GB cards can clear 60FPS the 8GB cards are neck and neck with them. 9060XT gets 105 vs 101 average and 95 vs 90 low at 1080p high native with a 4 FPS difference at 1440p.
There’s a reason why they hyper focus on the 5060Ti and that’s because it’s kneecapped by the x8 interface with 8GB whereas the 9060XT isn’t really affected in cases where both cards are actually playable and you’re not trying to bump up VRAM usage with 4K textures etc.
You can complain as much as you want but 8GB cards are fine, if you don’t want one don’t get one but people are still running cards with 4 and 8 GB frame buffers and with current hardware pricing they’re not upgrading for a while
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Nope. They released actual benchmarking not a biased hit piece and the 9060XT has a 4FPS difference at 1080p and 1440p high with RT on the 8GB vs 16GB model. It’s effectively unnoticeable at playable settings.
The 5060Tis issue is the stupid x8 interface not the VRAM.
What you seem to overlook is the fact that when there is not enough VRAM, then there is not enough VRAM, and it does not really matter what PCI-E bandwidth you have when it is still not enough. It just delays the inevitable. The PCI-E interface will move the data faster to the RAM, which is already the second worst solution; the worst is the SSD. So your fast PCI-E interface moves the memory to the RAM as it still does not have enough VRAM. So nothing changes. You can spin it however you want. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH VRAM. Don't you see and understand that?
Let me ask you: why do you defend the GPU manufacturer for still providing 8 GB VRAM when it has been clearly proven over and over again that it is not enough anymore in 2026? Why?
Let me ask you: why do you defend the GPU manufacturer for still providing 8 GB VRAM when it has been clearly proven over and over again that it is not enough anymore in 2026? Why?
Aside from it clearly does matter because the 9060XT 8GB model is neck and neck with the 16GB model and the 5060Ti isn’t.
Combating misinformation isn’t defending anything. The fact of the matter is there is nothing wrong with 8GB cards and those who say otherwise are misinformed or pushing an agenda.
There is literally an article on this site published today that proves it’s enough.they just try to ignore it.
Maybe read and watch this article, which explains and demonstrates it in games like *Pragmata*, where the FPS may still look fine, but the game automatically leaves data out to make it work. Wake. up. It is not even just about FPS anymore. Games nowadays adjust automatically without you being able to do anything about it, to make it smooth for people with only 8 GB cards. You are ignoring the issue just because the FPS are "fine."
And in the forum post, the author—one of the guys in the video—also says:
Timestamp of the video where he shows how details get reduced and LOD is aggressively adjusted:
Article: https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Prag...8-GiByte-VRAM-Gate-RTX-3070-RTX-5060-1525770/
And in the forum post, the author—one of the guys in the video—also says:
Timestamp of the video where he shows how details get reduced and LOD is aggressively adjusted:
Article: https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Prag...8-GiByte-VRAM-Gate-RTX-3070-RTX-5060-1525770/
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