Forza Horizon 6 Performance Benchmark Review - 30+ GPUs Tested 65

Forza Horizon 6 Performance Benchmark Review - 30+ GPUs Tested

Preset Performance & Image Quality »

Graphics Settings

  • The first section contains general display settings.
  • You may choose between windowed and fullscreen.
  • The frame rate limiter can be set to 20, 30 and 60 FPS. When V-Sync is disabled there's also an "Unlocked (variable)" option.
  • Motion blur can be disabled completely.
  • Anti-aliasing offers TAA with an adjustable sharpness slider, NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR, and Intel XeSS are available, too.
  • You may adjust sharpening for all these upscaling technologies.
  • Frame generation is only available via NVIDIA DLSS Frame Generation—there is no AMD or Intel frame generation option. Note: enabling DLSS Frame Generation will set the frame rate cap to 60 FPS—set it back to unlocked manually (requires V-Sync to be disabled), this is probably a bug.
  • Cams FOV lets you adjust the field of view for six camera perspectives: Chase Cam, Far Chase Cam, Driver Cam, Dashboard Cam, Hood Cam, and Bumper Cam, each with a default value and adjustable slider.
  • Start Benchmark Mode triggers the built-in benchmark.
  • The Preset selector offers quality presets: Very Low, Low, Medium, High, Ultra, Extreme, High + RT, Ultra + RT, Extreme + RT.
  • Level of Detail controls Car Level of Detail, Environment Texture Quality, and Environment Geometry Quality, each with multiple quality levels up to Extreme.
  • Reflections includes Car Reflection Quality, Screen Space Reflections Quality, and Raytraced Reflections Quality.
  • Enabling ray-traced reflections automatically disables the screen-space equivalent (and vice versa).
  • Shadows provides Shadow Quality and Night Shadows settings, each with multiple quality levels up to Extreme.
  • Lighting and Materials offers Screen Space GI Quality, Raytraced GI Quality, and Shader Quality. Enabling ray-traced GI disables the screen-space equivalent.
  • Additionally, there's a good list of options for fine-tuning performance.

Test System

Test System - GPU 2025.2
Processor:AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Zen 5, 5.2 GHz, 8 cores/16 threads
Motherboard:MSI X870E Carbon Wi-Fi
BIOS 7E49v1A3
Resizable BAR:Enabled on all supported cards
(NVIDIA, AMD & Intel)
Memory:Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG
2× 16 GB DDR5 6200 MT 28-36-36-76 UCLK 1:1
Cooling:Arctic Liquid Freezer III
280 mm AIO
Thermal Paste:Arctic MX-6
Storage:4 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Power Supply:Seasonic Focus GX 1000 W
ATX 3.0 / 16-pin 12VHPWR
Case:darkFlash DY470
Operating System:Windows 11 Professional 64-bit 25H2
VBS enabled (Windows 11 default)
Drivers: NVIDIA: 596.49 WHQL
AMD: 26.5.1 WHQL
Intel: 101.8737 Beta
Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

  • All cards used for comparison are Founders Edition/reference design. If a reference card does not exist, we use the closest model to ensure default clocks and power limit.
  • We tested the Steam press-preview release version of the game.
  • We used the game's built-in benchmark mode, which runs a driving sequence through a typical racing map.
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