Given the fact that the game ran incredibly well on our simulated quad-core, we are pretty sure that owners of Intel’s i5 CPUs will be able to max it out without encountering any performance issues.Īs for its memory requirements, we can confirm that 8GB of RAM are more than enough for gaming in both 1080p/60fps and 4K/60fps. Forza Motorsport 6: APEX stresses two threads, and slightly uses two additional threads. Moreover, and as we can see, this game is mostly dual-threaded. On the other hand, our simulated quad-core system was able to achieve a constant 60fps experience (with and without Hyper Threading). Our simulated dual-core CPU (with Hyper Threading enabled) can offer a 30fps experience, it cannot achieve a constant 60fps experience as there were noticeable drops at 50fps.
Turn 10 Studios lists an i3 as the minimum required CPU, and it is right. So basically, the game is indeed enjoyable in 4K with a single GTX980Ti, as long as you don’t use an exterior viewpoint.īut what about the its CPU requirements? Turn 10 Studios recommends an i7 CPU but does this mean that the game cannot be maxed out on an i5 CPU? Well, in order to find out how the game scales on various CPUs, we simulated a dual-core and a quad-core CPU. We should note that the game was running with constant 60fps with the cockpit and the bonnet viewpoints on the rainy stages. The bad news is that there were noticeable slowdowns on the rainy stages when using the exterior “chase” camera viewpoint. The good news is that the game did run with constant 60fps on most occasions. But what about 4K? Well, we’ve got some good and some bad news.
The game ran with constant 60fps in 1080p on Ultra settings. Most of PC gamers will prefer to use their own settings but we have to congratulate Turn 10 Studios for offering such an option.įorza Motorsport 6: APEX performed incredibly well on our GTX980Ti. You can specify which settings can be dynamic, something that sounds very, very cool. When enabled, this option will lower the quality of your settings in order to hit your desired framerate (30fps or 60fps). In case you didn’t know, Forza Motorsport 6: APEX features a really clever option called “Dynamic”. The good news here is that the game scales well on older hardware, so those with GPUs similar to the GTX680 will be able to achieve a 60fps experience by either lowering some settings or by using the game’s “Dynamic” options. Not only that, but we had to lower the quality of textures as the 2GB of VRAM were not enough for this game.
In order to achieve constant 60fps in 1080p, we had to lower a number of graphics settings. Our GTX690 was unable to offer a 60fps experience in 1080p on Ultra settings. Still, we’ll concentrate on this worst case scenario. Do note that on sunny days, the game runs better. Due to the water spray, the raindrops and all the reflections, our benchmark can be considered as the worst case scenario in this game. Given its DX12 nature, the game does not support multi-GPU systems, which basically means that our GTX690 performed similarly to a GTX680.įor our benchmark purposes, we ran two laps and we were staying really close to a lot of cars.
Well, the beta version of Forza Motorsport 6: APEX is now available, so it’s time to see how this racing game performs on the PC.įor this PC performance analysis we used an Intel i7 4930K (turbo boosted at 4.0Ghz) with 8GB RAM, NVIDIA’s GTX980Ti and GTX690, Windows 10 64-bit and the latest WHQL version of the GeForce drivers. In addition, we wondered whether the game would actually require those recommended 12GB of RAM or not. When Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios revealed the official PC requirements for Forza Motorsport 6: APEX, a lot of PC gamers wondered whether a single GTX980Ti would be able to offer a constant 60fps (as it was indicated by its specs).