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Graphics card for VR

ninjag

ninjag

ninjag

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Hi, I'm do PCVR with the Quest 2 and whilst my GTX1660 Super has been an excellent card, I feel it really is at its limits with VR even when at 100% power boost via Afterburner.

Looking for a new card, but ideally I don't really want to spend any more than £400-500 as I'm not a heavy gamer. Ideally a card with 0% rpm fan control rather than the 41% min thing.

I've always been Nvidia after a bad experience with a Radeon card, but that was a long, long time ago so I'm open to both. I've read a few posts about waiting a few months for a supposed fire sale when the new cards come out, is this really a possibility and if so what card would I be looking out for either now or later?

Any help would be greatly appreciated and here's my current specs in case there are restrictions:

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
MAG X570 Tomahawk WIFI
Kingston HyperX Fury 32GB DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz
WD Black SN850 1TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME
750W Corsair RM750i or 750W Corsair RM750x (I forget which I put in mine and which is in my son's!)
34" Gigabyte G34WQC curved monitor


Cheers
G
 
MissChief said:
3070FE if you can get one. Any 3070 really. If you’re willing to go used you’d maybe pick up a 10G 3080.
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I'll have a look thanks, seems like almost twice the power of the 1660 Super. I'll need to check dimensions for my case, although it's pretty big. I wouldn't go used with a graphics card, got the fear of it being fried.


Scania said:
My 1080ti handles VR superbly, I’m sure you should bag a good one well within budget.
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Crickey, I forgot about that card but that's some benchmark for the age of it. How on earth does it achieve this, is it the memory clock?
 
I have a similar spec system and it seems to run VR fine with a 3070Ti FE (bought a Ti version as it was the only sensibly priced option available at the time).
 
What VR games are you playing? As the top end cards struggle to render 140fps with all the sliders maxed out on the latest AAA VR titles.
 
Haze said:
Don't max everything out then lol
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Then what's the point of having max out sliders?
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I'm only running medium settings and it's usually ok so long as I've got Afterburner o/c power set to 100%. But when playing some Half Life:Alyx custom maps where there are large outdoor areas things I can get a little slow down.

I am debating whether or not there are enough decent PCVR titles out there just now to justify updating the graphics card, but I've had this 1660 Super for so long it would be nice to get a decent RTX level card for my PC titles as well.
 
ninjag said:
I'm only running medium settings and it's usually ok so long as I've got Afterburner o/c power set to 100%. But when playing some Half Life:Alyx custom maps where there are large outdoor areas things I can get a little slow down.

I am debating whether or not there are enough decent PCVR titles out there just now to justify updating the graphics card, but I've had this 1660 Super for so long it would be nice to get a decent RTX level card for my PC titles as well.
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IF it's a Quest 2 then you want a 3xxx series card if you want an upgrade over your 1660 Super. The 1660 Super has a faster encoder than the 1080Ti. And the encoding speed is important for the Quest 2.

But, it's late in the day for upgrading to an Ampere card. If you waited this long, I would wait a little longer. The next generation of cards from both companies are due over the next few months. By the end of September we should have a clearer picture of what's happening with the next gen.
 
melmac said:
IF it's a Quest 2 then you want a 3xxx series card if you want an upgrade over your 1660 Super. The 1660 Super has a faster encoder than the 1080Ti. And the encoding speed is important for the Quest 2.

But, it's late in the day for upgrading to an Ampere card. If you waited this long, I would wait a little longer. The next generation of cards from both companies are due over the next few months. By the end of September we should have a clearer picture of what's happening with the next gen.
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Thanks for this, very useful info there.
 
ninjag said:
Crickey, I forgot about that card but that's some benchmark for the age of it. How on earth does it achieve this, is it the memory clock?
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I think it was just way ahead of its time, as I say, I use mine for VR a lot , FS2020, Project Cars, and one of my favourites which is Titanic VR, I love underwater wreck exploring and this is very cool.

I’ve noticed 1080ti’s getting cheaper on some sales sites (Gumtree for example) they still fetch silly money on eBay but I wouldn’t be looking there for one regardless. :)
 
ninjag said:
I'm only running medium settings and it's usually ok so long as I've got Afterburner o/c power set to 100%. But when playing some Half Life:Alyx custom maps where there are large outdoor areas things I can get a little slow down.

I am debating whether or not there are enough decent PCVR titles out there just now to justify updating the graphics card, but I've had this 1660 Super for so long it would be nice to get a decent RTX level card for my PC titles as well.
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I'll just add in that the 6700xt that I'm running here can run HL Alyx on high with the ReverbG2 at full res and it runs perfect. Even better then my 5700xt ran the game on the Rift S. It's not the most demanding game though - Racing sims in VR are a lot more. For highest settings on demanding racing sim games you kinda need all the power you can get without reducing settings. In that case id recommend a minimum 3070ti.
 
You can get a used 2080ti nowadays for £350.
They perform somewhere between a 3070 and a 3070ti, but also have 3gb more vram in case it's ever needed.

Edit: They also run cooler than most 3070ti and some models run near silent.
 
I use my Quest 2 with a 6800, and while it works fine, for this purpose I'd recommend an Nvidia card. Airlink is limited to 100mbps on AMD cards, whereas it's 200mbps for Nvidia - I believe this is due to faster encoding.
 
I use Virtual Desktop with a dedicated router and I get a constant link connection of 1600Mbps for what that's worth.

Thanks for all the advice, very much appreciated. Regarding a used card, I would be worried that it's been abused etc. Is this a genuine concern to have?
 
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