vr Which should i upgrade for vr CPU or GPU?

[skylord0823]

I'm currently trying to upgrade my pc to only run vr as thats what its new purpose is, I'm running a radeon rx 570 gpu and an AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Ive had a few issues with visual lag in a handful of games and im not sure what i should upgrade, or if it will be fine when i wipe the drives and have it only used for vr, any ideas on what i should upgrade and what i should get? im not trying to buy top of the line gear just something that it will make the lag less prevalent. 

 

my amd software is telling me the gpu is where i should probably aim to upgrade but with some tuning it gets a vram speed of 1750mhz so im not sure if this is whats necessary, it also says my cpu is generally fine and is somewhat better than the minimum requirements but from what ive read the cpu is usually what needs upgraded, im just really not sure what the bottleneck is or what i should be looking for in an upgrade

 

any help would be absolutely fantastic

[AdamBGames]

9 minutes ago, skylord0823 said:

I'm currently trying to upgrade my pc to only run vr as thats what its new purpose is, I'm running a radeon rx 570 gpu and an AMD Ryzen 5 1600, Ive had a few issues with visual lag in a handful of games and im not sure what i should upgrade, or if it will be fine when i wipe the drives and have it only used for vr, any ideas on what i should upgrade and what i should get? im not trying to buy top of the line gear just something that it will make the lag less prevalent. 

 

my amd software is telling me the gpu is where i should probably aim to upgrade but with some tuning it gets a vram speed of 1750mhz so im not sure if this is whats necessary, it also says my cpu is generally fine and is somewhat better than the minimum requirements but from what ive read the cpu is usually what needs upgraded, im just really not sure what the bottleneck is or what i should be looking for in an upgrade

 

any help would be absolutely fantastic

While you can get away with a 570 in most well known VR titles, I know from my own usage I can get games like beatsaber and Superhot working with a laptop 560X, the 570 may come into some issues with higher end games depending on their optimisation, games like Half Life Alex will see a few microstutters and games like No Man's Sky will be very stuttery (Poorly optimised IMO) but with lower settings they will be at least playable.

 

I think however for a more STABLE gameplay, something like a 1070 will be a better choice or if you want to keep to AMD something like a 5600XT is pretty good if you can get one for a good price.

 

Luckily, since VR is heavily GPU based, the CPU doesnt have to be too extreme, so the 1600 will be fine for most if not all titles.