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There's a note in the reviewer's guide saying the game currently has a bug that causes it to use an excessive amount of memory on the Extreme preset, but that appeared to affect AMD's GPUs more than Nvidia's cards. Unfortunately, we still experienced a few oddities with our AMD GPU testing, particularly on cards with 'only' 8GB or less VRAM. We're using AMD's 21.11.1 drivers, which came out this week and specifically mentioned Forza Horizon 5 optimizations. Perhaps that's because of its console origins, or maybe just because AMD's GPUs were better at handling generic DirectX 12 code. Of course, the predecessor was also 'agnostic' but did tend to favor AMD GPUs.

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We're looking to update to the i9-12900K starting in January, most likely, but the i9-9900K still does quite well in all the games we've tested.įorza Horizon 5 is a 'GPU agnostic' game, meaning it wasn't actively promoted by AMD or Nvidia and shouldn't contain any optimizations that specifically benefit one company's GPUs.

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That's because outside of 1080p testing, most of the tests end up being largely limited by the GPUs, especially at 1440p and 4K.

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While Intel's Alder Lake CPUs are now available, along with two other generations of Intel CPUs plus AMD's Zen 2 and Zen 3 families, we haven't upgraded our GPU testbed yet. Our test hardware continues to use a Core i9-9900K CPU and other components.

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Forza Horizon 5 Test SetupĬorsair 2x16GB DDR4-3200 CL16 (opens in new tab) We'll revisit this topic if/when things change. You can enable ray tracing on everything from the latest GPUs down to old hardware like a GTX 980 or RX 5000-series, so it's presumably not nearly as GPU intensive as ray traced graphics workloads.įor now, all testing doesn't include ray tracing - or at least, the open world racing portion of the game, including the built-in benchmark, doesn't include ray tracing. Maybe.Īccording to Microsoft, the game also uses ray tracing to enhance the 3D audio, though it's unclear how much this matters - and whether it even uses GPU hardware to accomplish the task. There are lots of shiny cars, some wet roads, and buildings with windows, so it might be worth a modest hit to performance. Hopefully there's a change of heart, as we'd love to see how RT reflections change the look of the main game. Yeah, that's as underwhelming as it sounds. What's that, you ask? It's a special version of the garage. Except it can't, really.Īpparently, the only place you'll see ray traced reflections in Forza Horizon 5 is in ForzaVista. Forza Horizon 5 was designed with the latest generation Xbox Series X|S consoles in mind, which means it can make use of the latest hardware. The previous game came out right after Nvidia's launch of the RTX 20-series GPUs, and it didn't try to leverage the tech. You might think one of the biggest changes would be the advent of ray tracing hardware and technology. There are still a few lingering bugs and glitches to fix, so this is a preview of performance rather than the final say, but let's get to the testing with some of the best graphics cards. We received early access to the review code, and thankfully it's on Steam from the start this time, so no more fussing with the Microsoft Store.

We've used the previous game in our GPU benchmarks since it launched three years ago, so it's time to see how things have - and haven't - changed in the ensuing years. Forza Horizon 5 represents Playground Games' latest and greatest installment in the series, taking us to the lovely environs of Mexico.