Can I Run Forza Horizon 5?
Forza Horizon 5 is an action adventure game from Playground Games, released in 2021. Xbox Game Studios published it. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Steam lists support for 16 languages. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. The game ships for Windows alone. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Its Steam review count passes 257 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Completionists have 164 achievements to work through.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-4460 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVidia GTX 970, AMD RX 470, OR Intel Arc A380 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 110 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVidia GTX 1070, AMD RX 590, OR Intel Arc A750 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 110 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher |
| DirectX | 12 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Forza Horizon 5 structures its play around circuits and tracks. Play is presented from a first person view. The publisher supplies 16 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Forza Horizon 5 is demanding
Demand in Forza Horizon 5 is ordinary. The publisher has NVidia GTX 1070, AMD RX 590, OR Intel Arc A750 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Forza Horizon 5 calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Forza Horizon 5 at the floor and Forza Horizon 5 at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Budget around 110 GB of storage for Forza Horizon 5. Forza Horizon 5 expects 16 GB of system memory.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Forza Horizon 5?
Free up space before installing Forza Horizon 5: it needs roughly 110 GB. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, NVidia GTX 970, AMD RX 470, OR Intel Arc A380 and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Forza Horizon 5 needs about 110 GB of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Forza Horizon 5's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Forza Horizon 5?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-4460 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200; GPU: NVidia GTX 970, AMD RX 470, OR Intel Arc A380; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher.
How much storage does Forza Horizon 5 need?
Forza Horizon 5 needs about 110 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Forza Horizon 5?
The RTX 3060 runs Forza Horizon 5 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Forza Horizon 5?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Forza Horizon 5 is the GPU.