3060 (Ti), 6700 XT or 3070 for Quest 2?

[Robert Walker]

Howdy folks - appreciate any advice or experience you can offer...

Got me an Oculus Quest 2 to help tide the gaming gap. For day-to-day gaming, I run 1080p so a 3060 will be plenty, but I hope to plug the Quest 2 into the PC to play a few things. Elite Dangerous, MS Flight Sim, that sort of thing most likely my mainstay but interested in FPS so Half Life Alyx is bound to get played as well.

While I don't want to spend too much on a graphics card (as I say, a bog standard 3060 will do for my desktop gaming) I'm guessing for a good VR experience I'm better off going up to one of these higher cards: 3060Ti, 6700XT or 3070. Anyone got any experience of these cards and games and got any suggestions. Do I need to go higher still?

Thanks all

 

[Robert Walker]

I would recommend getting a 3060Ti at the minimum. I would only go for higher if you could get your hands on a 3080FE or 6800XT at MSRP.

I don't think a 3070 or a 6700XT provides a large enough jump in performance over the 3060Ti to be worth considering. While the 3060Ti is a big improvement in VR over the 3060.

Thank you - that's good to know. I thought the plain 3060 might be a bit wheezy. 3060Ti was my preferred card and if the 3070 / 6700 are only marginally better then the only reason to go for them would be availability rather than performance - again, really handy to know.

Out of interest - what's the step up like for the 3080 / 6800? Is it higher frame rates, better visual fidelity, better visual effects, all of them? As I've only done VR on the Quest 2's internal chip so far, it's the only experience I've had so I'm not really sure how to pose the question if you get what I mean.

Much appreciated.

 

[Robert Walker]

Even a 3090 can't max out all VR games. Get the best card you can afford and get actually hold of.

Better cards allow you to run at higher resolution and/or refresh rate and therefore get a much clearer and/or smoother experience.

Thank you, really helpful.

 

[Robert Walker]

How are you finding the visuals on Quest 2 so far? Do you think the games look good? What games have you tried?

I've been really impressed with it as a piece of kit. Set up is a doddle. Tracking can be a bit iffy sometimes, especially when the sun comes round to this side of the house.

Games... so far I've only really done "get off your butt during lockdown and move around games" so Beat Sabre (90% of my time on this), Oh Shape and Dance Central. I've also watched some 3d videos and done a couple of odd bits like the rollercoaster sim. I'm going to try some of the FPS, but so much else to do and trying to get ahead in Beat Sabre has been a focus for me. Visually I again think it's amazing what they're able to do with a mobile chip. My biggest worry was whether I'd experience delays with the head tracking and get sick but it's been great. However, I've ZERO experience of any other VR so I really can't say if the graphics are "good" or "bad", but for a noob I think it's amazing. That's also why I got the Quest 2 as it was a reasonable price for dipping your toe in, and then I'll also be able to connect it to the PC. Couldn't justify dropping a grand on a Valve Index only to find I hated it or didn't use it.

 

[Robert Walker]

Thank you - appreciate everyone's advice. I'll get in touch once graphics cards have started to become available at a not unreasonable price. In the meantime, stand alone games are plenty to keep me busy...

Cheers

 

[Robert Walker]

I discovered the forum earlier this year, and have been a reader but am not much of one for posting on these things (Lemon Fool is the only other one I bother with). I'm impressed by the community and I'm really pleased with the way OCUK are trying to get cards into gamers hands (and appreciate no system is perfect) - definitely deserve my hard earned going forwards. Tbh I expect graphics card availability to have normalised before I get to the MM, but as you say, knowing that you're dealing with people that care and are passionate (and are more likely to tell the truth about the life of kit) is worth it's weight in gold, so should I qualify one day then that will be great. Happy to have joined the community and hopefully my contributions will earn me a place over time (and I'll try to avoid spamming, flaming or any of that BS). Anyway, I'm off topic... so I will ask a relevant question...

There is a group of us who play casual multiplayer games, if that is something that might interest you when you get your new GPU, let us know.

What are the multiplayer games? The stuff I've looked at so far I assume is mostly single player... Half Life Alyx, Warhammer Sister of Battle, um, yeah, that's probably it. I think Population One is multiplayer. TBH I prefer FPS as a single player campaign, but am planning to play flight & space sims - Elite Dangerous, MS Flight Sim and Star Wars Squadrons (all of which have multiplayer / persistent universes).