CPU Cores for VR

kevman · 22 Nov 2020 at 16:19

Looking to upgrade from my 7700k over the next few months and have been looking at 5600x/ 5800x

Do you think that VR benefits from extra cores as it has to run steamvr/ oculus in the background.

VR games seem to be a bit more CPU intensive than pancake (WS S&S, Boneworks, Asgards) so do you think it would be best to go 8 core (despite all the youtube advice) as it seems the 5600x does pretty much everything anyway.

Pairing with 3090.

melmac · 22 Nov 2020 at 16:40

3090 is bottlenecked even at high resolutions.

Go for the fastest, most powerful CPU you can. 5800x would be the minimum CPU I would pair with the 3090.

kevman · 22 Nov 2020 at 18:03

Yeah your probably right. 5600x is cheaping out bit. I will look for a 5900x which should sort things out

melmac · 22 Nov 2020 at 18:31

You will be sorted in VR for years with that setup.

Hairydavey · 22 Nov 2020 at 22:23

Currently running 6700k with a 3090 as I'm still waiting for my 5900x to arrive (109 in the queue atm and quite frankly can't wait!).

Apart from being able to increase the usual supersampling etc, I still get patchy performance and frame skips etc due to the 6700k. ETS2 is especially bad at this with stuttering galore but I'm also getting stutter in Borderlands 2 VR which isn't the most demanding game. It's not just VR games that are bottlenecked to kingdom come, I experience skips etc in most other games although they run smooth at 4k maxxed out for the most part and its certainly down to the 6700k being choked.

I stream VR games on occasion as well as normal pancake games, so I want all the power I can get!

One of my mates is running a 1660 Super paired with a 3600x and his gameplay and streams (both pancake and VR), are far smoother than mine, those extra cores are certainly doing something worthwhile.

The truth is 4c/8t cpus just don't cut it anymore.