1050 ti ready for vr?

[BeanJuice]

so im deciding to get the 1050 ti and im just wondering if it could handle vr

 

[Sakkura]

It's enough for the Oculus Rift, but not the HTC Vive.

[Moress]

The 1060 3gb is the lowest 1000 series card you'd want to pair with a VR headset. And truth be told if you're paying $600+ for VR you should get a much better GPU first.

[Sakkura]

3 minutes ago, Moress said:

The 1060 3gb is the lowest 1000 series card you'd want to pair with a VR headset. And truth be told if you're paying $600+ for VR you should get a much better GPU first.

With ASW on the Oculus Rift, a 1050 Ti is appropriate.

[Velvet Revolver]

Why waste your hard earned money on a wimpy little 1050 Ti, just go with a 1060 or 1070 or 480

[ARikozuM]

You'll be able to play on either platform, but I think the Rift will do better thanks to ASW.

[X_X]

VRMark for 1050 Ti

[ivan134]

If your budget is that tight, you can't a VR setup. VR is still an enthusiast thing atm.

[Sakkura]

14 hours ago, ivan134 said:

If your budget is that tight, you can't a VR setup. VR is still an enthusiast thing atm.

Not true, Oculus made a big difference there with the introduction of ASW. Valve just needs to get their butts in gear and follow suit.

[ivan134]

3 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Not true, Oculus made a big difference there with the introduction of ASW. Valve just needs to get their butts in gear and follow suit.

???

You mean someone who can only afford a 1050 ti can afford VR gear that costs more than a mid range GPU and  a monitor just to play a few games??????????????????

[Sakkura]

46 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

???

You mean someone who can only afford a 1050 ti can afford VR gear that costs more than a mid range GPU and  a monitor just to play a few games??????????????????

Someone who can afford VR gear might only have enough left over for a 1050 Ti. How hard is that concept to understand?

[ivan134]

7 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Someone who can afford VR gear might only have enough left over for a 1050 Ti. How hard is that concept to understand?

What sane person would do that?

[Sakkura]

7 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

What sane person would do that?

Someone who wants to play VR games and has a certain amount of cash available. There's nothing wrong with doing VR with a 1050 Ti.

[Vellinious]

I wouldn't waste my time with VR and a 1050ti.  That's like buying a couple of TitanXPs and running a 720p monitor.  Or a 960 and running a 4k monitor.  Will they do it? Sure.....but the experience isn't going to be worth the money you spent on it.  

Just my two copper.....

[ivan134]

16 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Someone who wants to play VR games and has a certain amount of cash available. There's nothing wrong with doing VR with a 1050 Ti.

.....okay man

[Phate.exe]

19 minutes ago, Vellinious said:

I wouldn't waste my time with VR and a 1050ti.  That's like buying a couple of TitanXPs and running a 720p monitor.  Or a 960 and running a 4k monitor.  Will they do it? Sure.....but the experience isn't going to be worth the money you spent on it.  

Just my two copper.....

I'd say it's closer to your second example (high-res, high-hz display with a card that either can't utilize the display, or can only do it on the lowest detail level).  A titan XP at 720p would do some hilarious framerates.

 

My vote is buy the cheapest RX 480 you can get right now (they're well under $200), then stash the rest until the next time you get paid and buy the VR gear then.  Or get a 470.

 

Either will be massively better for VR (and anything else) than a 1050 ti.

[Vellinious]

18 minutes ago, Phate.exe said:

I'd say it's closer to your second example (high-res, high-hz display with a card that either can't utilize the display, or can only do it on the lowest detail level).  A titan XP at 720p would do some hilarious framerates.

 

My vote is buy the cheapest RX 480 you can get right now (they're well under $200), then stash the rest until the next time you get paid and buy the VR gear then.  Or get a 470.

 

Either will be massively better for VR (and anything else) than a 1050 ti.

Hilarious frame rates, but in 720p.  The correlation being the totally ridiculous amount of money to play in 720p.  It'd be a waste.  /shrug

[Phate.exe]

1 minute ago, Vellinious said:

Hilarious frame rates, but in 720p.  The correlation being the totally ridiculous amount of money to play in 720p.  It'd be a waste.  /shrug

I'd rather play 720p pegged against the refresh rate of the display at the highest possible settings than play with a car that's struggle-bussing on low settings at a high resolution.  I used a 26in 720p TV as a monitor when I was at school.  From 5 feet away sitting on my bed it was a perfectly usable usage experience.

 

Either way, a total waste of money though.  There's future-proofing your monitor purchase even if it means gimping your current card a bit, but when taken to an extreme it's just asinine.  It's why I'm probably not going 4k for a while.

 

If money's tight, just grab an RX 470 (which anybody that cares about performance and PCI-E power connections should do anyways).

[Calum2000]

21 minutes ago, Phate.exe said:

I'd rather play 720p pegged against the refresh rate of the display at the highest possible settings than play with a car that's struggle-bussing on low settings at a high resolution.  I used a 26in 720p TV as a monitor when I was at school.  From 5 feet away sitting on my bed it was a perfectly usable usage experience.

 

Either way, a total waste of money though.  There's future-proofing your monitor purchase even if it means gimping your current card a bit, but when taken to an extreme it's just asinine.  It's why I'm probably not going 4k for a while.

 

If money's tight, just grab an RX 470 (which anybody that cares about performance and PCI-E power connections should do anyways).

You can always crossfire the 470 in the future withe 1050ti you can't sli.

[Reflecting]

A 1050ti is the same as a 960 basically. I would not use one for VR.

[Nexxus]

17 hours ago, X_X said:

VRMark for 1050 Ti

This link is useless...

[X_X]

On 12/14/2016 at 3:40 AM, Nexxus said:

This link is useless...

Yeah, it only shows VR benchmarks for the 1050ti with clickable boxes for details. Why would the OP want to know about that.

[Nexxus]

7 minutes ago, X_X said:

Yeah, it only shows VR benchmarks for the 1050ti with clickable boxes for details. Why would the OP want to know about that.

with absolutely 0 context unless you click elsewhere within the page. ...it doesn't say anywhere on that page of those numbers are good enough for VR or not.

[X_X]

2 minutes ago, Nexxus said:

with absolutely 0 contexts... it doesn't say anywhere on that page of those numbers are good enough for VR or not.

Click on the details box.

 

 

Quote

 

Score 4 547

with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti(1x) and Intel Core i7-4700MQ

Average frame rate

99.13 fps

Target frame rate

109.00 fps

You should have a good experience with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The system outperformed the Oculus Rift minimum spec, but it fell short of the target frame rate. A VR headset will compensate for missed frames but you should try before you buy since the results can vary.

 

 

[Nexxus]

3 minutes ago, X_X said:

Click on the details box.

 

 

 

 

...So link directly to the details page? 

Also good job bumping a 4 day old thread for this