980 TI enough for VR ?

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  1. haibane

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    Or will i have to upgrade ?

    I'm thinking about it for when i move houses. If not, Pascal / skylake should bring much better perfs around the end of summer ?
     
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    Yeah well i doubt a 970 could run a 2x4k monitor setup lol, i'll wait for the benchmarks on Valkyrie once OR and Vive are released
     
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    Long story short, yes the 980 Ti is plenty enough for VR gaming. You'll have a good experience.
     
    MechaDangerous, Mar 26, 2016
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    Claiming ignorance here is VR gaming include the Oculus Rift and other hardware?

    I would imagine the card would be powerful enough to do it give its power.
     
    gabrielthul, Apr 6, 2016
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    Lmao I didnt see the 2x4k monitors then I would have no idea then.
     
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    We wont have a single card solution able to drive dual 4K displays until 2017 sometime. And with VR you want 90 frames per second minimum otherwise you will run into motion sickness issues.


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    So it depends on the game but honestly I would say 980Ti would be minimum GPU to use for VR if you want to be able to play pretty much any game alright.
     
    EniGmA1987, Apr 7, 2016
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