Horizon Forbidden West PC vs PS5: Enhanced Features, Performance Tests + Image Quality Boosts!

Digital Foundry is sponsored by MSI’s new range of next-gen QD OLED gaming monitors. Learn more about these displays here: Click here for your chance to win a MSI 271QRX 360Hz QD OLED (UK only): Pre-launch, Guerrilla Games and PC specialists Nixxes offered us a chance to take a look at Horizon Forbidden West. This game has much to prove in the wake of the difficulties surrounding the Horizon Zero Dawn launch - but early impressions suggest that this is yet another impressive Nixxes effort. Alex takes a look at features, PC enhancements vs PS5, image quality boosts via improved upscaling solutions and checks out performance on mid-range PCs. The recommended specs looked eminently reasonable - so how does the final game shape up? Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: Join the DF Patreon to support the team more directly and to get access to everything we do via pristine quality downloads: Want some DF-branded tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more? Check out our store: For commercial enquiries, please contact business@ 00:00 Sponsored by MSI QD OLED 00:36 Introduction 01:57 User Interface Options 04:08 Fast Loading With DirectStorage 04:59 Shader Pre-Compilation Implemented! 06:15 PC Upgrades vs PlayStation 10:44 GPU Performance: RTX 3070 and RTX 2070 Super 11:26 8GB GPU VRAM Testing 12:46 CPU Performance 14:19 Suggested Improvements Summary