Forza Horizon 6 PC requirements indicate good optimization with support for budget builds

The next big instalment in the Forza Horizon series is going to be Japan-based Forza Horizon 6. The game was announced in September last year with a 2026 release, which was confirmed earlier this year to be May 19. Now, the studio, Playground Games, has shared the PC requirements for running the game at different settings and they indicate decent optimization.

The recommended setup for High settings at 1440p is a Core i5 12th gen or Ryzen 5 5600X on the CPU side and an RTX 3060 Ti, Radeon RX 6700XT, or Intel Arc A580 on the GPU side. These are quite tame so it’s good to see that the game has been optimized to run on budget hardware. The bare minimum is a GTX 1650 or Radeon RX 6500 XT or Arc A380, which is great news for lower end PCs.

At the Extreme end, an RTX 5070 Ti or Radeon RX 9070 XT is needed to push Extreme RT settings, but the game will run at an upscaled 4K resolution to target 60+ FPS. The game does demand 32 GB of RAM for the Extreme RT setting, which is not surprising.

The studio says Forza Horizon 6 will play great across devices be it a high-end PC, gaming laptops, or handheld gaming consoles. It will come with 4K HDR visuals, ray tracing features, uncapped framerates, and support for ultrawide monitor resolutions. The game will also support DLSS 4 with Multi-frame generation for RTX 50 series, frame generation for RTX 40 series and above, and DLSS Super Resolution for all GeForce RTX cards, as well as DLAA and NVIDIA Reflex. AMD FSR 4/3 will be supported as well, and Intel Arc GPU users have not been left behind with support XeSS 2.1, unlike Crimson Desert.

Another great addition is that the PC render settings will not require a restart to take effect. Forza Horizon 6 will bring a benchmark mode and real-time memory usage statistics for monitoring exactly how much VRAM is being used.