Like most people that have tried, I don’t possess an RTX 3080 as per the “Ideal” spec, though my RTX 2080 Ti was only single frame off the promised land, with a 59fps average using 4K and the Extreme preset. It’s mainly 4K (or 100fps-plus at 1440p) for which you’ll need to break the bank. More recent mid-to-high-tier cards like the RTX 2070 and RTX 3070 will naturally smash these resolution/settings combos even harder, though you should also be able to get slick 1080p performance on GPUs like the GTX 1060 as well.

I also tried the recommended-level Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070, which averaged 85fps at 1080p High, 61fps at 1080p Ultra, 70fps at 1440p High and 52fps at 1440p Ultra. Despite my usual distaste for motion blur, it makes a lot more sense in a racer than, say, a competitive shooter, and at lower framerates Forza’s implementation of blur does a good job of smoothing out lower frame rates without hurting readability.

Dropping down a level to the Medium preset also produced a smoother 57fps average, though I personally found High was fine. Engaging the High graphics preset produced an average of 46fps in Forza Horizon 5’s built-in benchmark, and always steered clear of the 30fps baseline.

GPU - AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080Īn AMD Radeon RX 570 is indeed a good shout as a starting point I tested this GPU with an Intel Core i5-12900K, obviously a much better CPU than those listed among the minimum specs, but at 1080p I doubt this would have made the difference between playable and unplayable.

CPU – AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT / Intel Core i7-10700K.

GPU - AMD Radeon RX 590 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070.

CPU – AMD Ryzen 5 1500X / Intel Core i5-8400.

GPU - AMD Radeon RX 570 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 970įorza Horizon 5 Recommended PC requirements.

Perhaps not to the extent of Forza Horizon 4, but still. Wielding one of the best graphics cards and best CPUs for gaming will help, but if you’re playing at the most common 1080p resolution then you can get by on much older and lower-end hardware. Here’s how Forza Horizon 5 runs on PC, and which settings to tweak if you want a performance boost without cutting too deep into that top-notch fidelity.ĭevelopers Playground Games haven’t gone totally bananas with the technical demands, to be clear. Well, lock me in one of this game’s hundreds of boots and take me away, because it’s both tonnes of fun and genuinely, magnificently gorgeous. I’ll admit I misjudged Forza Horizon 5 – not just the extent to which I’d enjoy it, but how much its searingly shiny visuals could justify the significantly heightened PC requirements.

Nvidia only shows 3d settings