AMD RX 6500 XT Review ft. Gigabyte Eagle

Forza Horizon 5 is a 2021 racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Xbox Game Studios. The twelfth main instalment of the Forza series, the game is set in a fictionalised representation of Mexico. It was released on 9 November 2021 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. (Wikipedia).

Engine: ForzaTech. We test using the Ultra preset, DX12 API.

As for Forza Horizon 5, this game perfectly illustrates the fundamental flaws of the 6500 XT. We know it’s a very VRAM-hungry title, but if you look at the data above, the 4GB 5500 XT is still delivering solid performance at these settings. In what’s likely a combination of the four PCIe lanes and incredibly limited memory bandwidth however, the 6500 XT performance drops off a cliff, and then drops off another one when we test with PCIe 3.0.

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