Forza Horizon 5 Settings & Optimization | Benchmark All Graphics Settings | Side by Side Comparison

Forza Horizon 5 graphics settings and benchmark guide with a lot of video comparisons of all the settings and how they look side by side. Can you tell the difference? Watch this video at 4k settings on youtube if you can so you can see the comaprisons better.

00:00 - Intro
02:45 - Default Graphics Profiles
04:08 - Anisotropic Filtering
04:40 - Shadow Quality
05:38 - Night Shadows
06:04 - Environmental Texture Quality
05:53 - Environmental Geometry Quality
07:36 - MSAA
08:31 - FXAA
09:01 - SSAO
09:39 - Reflection Quality
10:31 - World Car Level of Detail
11:19 - SSR
11:47 - Lens Effects
12:21 - Shader Quality
13:12 - Particle Quality
14:09 - Motion Blur, Deformable Terrain Quality, RTX, Outro

I ran each benchmark 3 times and averaged the results. I'm hoping that the youtube compression doesn't go too heavy on this video and you can still see the differences in the comparision. Some of the settings are really easy to see the differences in the raw footage, others not so much.

All tests were done on a Nvidia 3080 video card.
The results will obviously be different for lower powered cards, and some settings, especially those which require more vram will have a big hit if your lower spec card runs out of vram, but you can still use this is a general guide for your tuning of the game. If nothing else, just watch the video to look at the video comparisons. I'm trying to get a loan of some low and mid range cards for now so I can do more tests for you guys.

This is my first video like this, I hope it helps some people! I'm always learning so if you feel there is anything I could have done better, or things I could add/change, let me know in the comments.

I'm going to be making another video after this which will showcase all of the settings and more detail about what they do inside the game rather than the benchmark. It'll take a while to get this done, but i'll get started soon. Subrscribe to get notified when this goes live!

PC:
GPU: Nvidia 3080rtx
CPU: Ryzen 5600x
RAM: 16gb
RESOLUTION: 4k

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[Sporemastercreator]

Great detailed comparisons, for both FPS and Visuals. I could’ve sworn you were one of those bigger graphics channels, all the best!

[diysai]

Thanks a ton for this video! Nothing else comes close to this guide. Here are my personal optimal settings for the best Visual to performance ratio.
04:08 - Anisotropic Filtering - High
04:40 - Shadow Quality - High
05:38 - Night Shadows - On
06:04 - Environmental Texture Quality - Ultra
05:53 - Environmental Geometry Quality - High
07:36 - MSAA - Off if you have TAA enabled. Else MSAA 2x for 1080p and above
08:31 - FXAA - Off
09:01 - SSAO - Ultra
09:39 - Reflection Quality - Extreme or Ultra
10:31 - World Car Level of Detail - Ultra
11:19 - SSR - Ultra
11:47 - Lens Effects - Medium
12:21 - Shader Quality - Ultra
13:12 - Particle Quality - High
14:09 - Motion Blur - Ultra if you want to keep it, Deformable Terrain Quality - High, RTX - Off

[MrDeepSound]

Nice detailed info bro, wish you the best

[Xilent]

This video made me subscribe. I usually don’t on the 1st video I see from a Content Creator. Exactly the detail needed and well explained.

[PetrisonRocha]

Great job bro, thank you for this. Some observations:
Yes, there are particle effects on the benchmark: the water spray. I can see a slight change with different particle presets in my system, both in density of this spray and in avg framerate.
Call me crazy but I'm pretty sure environment geometry quality rules draw distance of the vegetation as well. I'm setting this to extreme (and taking the big performance hit) just because of that.

[aliosanlou]

Ive noticed that in the daylight (when sun has brighten up the roads ) shader quality does make some differnece in shadowing under the car (like right exactly below the car)

[raceandchase]

Probably the best comparison I’ve ever watched. Very well done. Would love to see more comparisons like this for Forza Horizon 4 and other games.

[benkenobi]

This is a really well made graphics comparison video. The only thing that I wished you looked at for all settings is VRAM usage. Some of the settings that had no performance difference, but there probably would've had a performance hit if you had less VRAM available, which most of us don't have as high VRAM as you do. Besides that though, this is an insanely well made graphics comparison video.

[OrigionaLV]

Thank you for showing the differences in each setting, great vid!

[rafael.reinas]

Really good comparison video. I am really impressed. If you add a summary for the recommended settings, it would be perfect. Keep up the good work!

[cbecerril_]

Dude, you won a like and a subscriber, really nice video, keep it up.

[thionstv]

You will get higher. The level of effort you put into this video. Hats off

[martmeister]

it's been said many time already but still had to say it. Great review and I appreciate all the effort (tons of hours!!!) that went into this. Really well executed.

[GMETH]

After watching the whole video I was surprised you had only 850 subscribers, I can obviously tell you put a lot of effort into the makings of this video, also well explained and the recommendations are the cherry on top, you just earned a new subscriber!

[EugeneFifchikus]

Awesome job, top quality! That's what I was looking for since Hardware Unboxed don't make these graphic settings comparison videos anymore

[timotheus]

awesome Video! it would have been really nice if you´d added an overview of all the settings at the end so it´d be easier to set them in the game

[TerraCinema]

Thank you for share it with us! I now able to modify setting in right way🌟✅✅

[juanreus]

Great video man! I was looking for one of these!
A note, SSR doesn't have extreme options at least not in my game.
Edit: medium is not listed so is confused with high and so on :D. Also on Lens effects, what you say is different of what is written :P

Anyways, I look forward for the more in depth video! Have a sub :D

[Zero_Jiro]

I normally don't sub to benchmark test channels, but you really did an amazing job with the overall format and quality. Very epic

[FloryDance]

WOW! After this settings Forza looks amazing on my laptop Radeon RX6600M. Thank you very much!