RTX 5090 hits 337 FPS in Forza

Graphics card benchmark headlines are easy to misread. “RTX 5090 hits 337 FPS in Forza Horizon 6” sounds like the card is brute-forcing 4K ray tracing at absurd speed. But the actual news is narrower — and still interesting. NVIDIA published those numbers on May 12 alongside its 596.49 Game Ready driver for Forza Horizon 6, and the setup leans hard on DLSS 4.5 plus Multi Frame Generation. ### Where did the 337 FPS number come from? It came from NVIDIA’s own launch benchmark stack for Forza Horizon 6 on PC. The company says the RTX 5090 can average 337 FPS at 4K with max settings and ray tracing enabled, and partner coverage repeats the same chart. That makes this a real published figure — not just a random social post — but it is still vendor-provided data. (nvidia.com) ### What settings are doing the heavy lifting? The big one is frame generation. NVIDIA’s 4K chart uses DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution in Performance mode plus 4x Multi Frame Generation. In plain English, the GPU is not rendering 337 traditionally rendered frames every second. It is rendering a lower base frame rate, then using AI-generated in-between frames to push the displayed number much higher. (nvidia.com) ### So what’s the “real” frame rate? That’s the catch. The partner write-up breaks the math out more bluntly: with 4x Multi Frame Generation, a 337 FPS result implies a base frame rate a bit over 80 to 100 FPS depending on how you count the multiplier and overhead. At 1440p, OC3D estimates the RTX 5090’s 4x-generated result corresponds to a “real” frame rate of over 100 FPS, while the RTX 5070 Ti lands around 66 FPS. So the card is still fast — just not in the literal way the headline number suggests. (overclock3d.net) ### Is that fake, then? No — but it measures a different thing. Generated frames absolutely improve motion smoothness on a high-refresh display, especially in a racing game where camera movement is constant and fast. But input response still tracks the base rendered frames more closely than the inflated output number. Basically, 337 FPS with heavy frame generation can feel great, but it does not behave the same way as a native 337 FPS pipeline. (overclock3d.net) ### How do the smaller RTX 50 cards look? Pretty strong on paper. NVIDIA’s published stack shows the RTX 5080 at 237 FPS, the RTX 5070 Ti at 205 FPS, and even the RTX 5060 above 165 FPS in the lower-resolution chart. That tells you Forza Horizon 6 looks set up to showcase the whole RTX 50 family, not just the flagship. But again, those gains are tied to DLSS 4.5 and frame generation, so cross-card comparisons are more useful than treating the raw FPS numbers as native performance. (nvidia.com) ### Why does this matter for buyers? Because the RTX 5090 is still a very expensive card in the real world. NVIDIA launched it at $1,999, but retail tracking still shows much higher street pricing in many places, and German listings remain far above that level for many board variants. So the buying question is not “can it hit 337 FPS in a benchmark chart?” It’s whether that uplift is worth flagship money when much of the visible gain comes from software features that also benefit cheaper RTX 50 cards. (overclock3d.net) ### What else changed this week? Forza Horizon 6 itself is part of NVIDIA’s broader DLSS push. The May 12 driver adds launch support for the game, and NVIDIA says RTX users can go even beyond the built-in implementation by using the NVIDIA app to enable Dynamic Multi Frame Generation 6X mode. That is great for chasing giant benchmark numbers. It also makes those numbers even less comparable to old-school, native-rendered FPS charts. (nvidia.com) ### Bottom line The RTX 5090 did hit 337 FPS in Forza Horizon 6 — in NVIDIA’s official benchmark, with ray tracing on, at 4K, using DLSS 4.5 and 4x frame generation. That is impressive. But the useful takeaway is smaller: Blackwell looks very strong in this game, and NVIDIA’s AI frame stack is doing a lot of the work. If you’re shopping, treat the headline as a showcase for the RTX 50 feature set — not as proof that the 5090 is rendering 4K ray tracing natively at 337 FPS. (nvidia.com)