Nvidia changing VR recommended specs?

aeroencychris · July 17, 2016

I was just doing a driver update for my 970 in Geforce Experience and noticed there was a patch note on their VR Funhouse title:

I remembered the GTX 970 being advertised as the "goto" VR budget card back when the 900 series was current. Looking into it further I saw this on their site:

Are they no longer encouraging the 970 or 980? Perhaps on a patch note they would only include current gen + the 980ti, but now they don't even acknowledge the 970 or 980 on their full spec list. Has VR just advanced to a point where they're obsolete? I can't imagine the 1060 outperforms the 970 in VR, yet it's still on the list.

Not that it matters to me, I've sold my Oculus DK2 long ago

Jacktastic-Mofo · July 17, 2016

The 1060 will very likely be better than the 970 in VR as NVIDIA is claiming 980 performance as well as it have 6GB's of VRAM vs 4GB's of VRAM, which would be much better for VR.

[狐] DJ Charizard · July 17, 2016

The 1060 should have the performance of a 980 or slightly better, so it would be better than the 970 for sure.

Though, I do find it find of funny that nvidia recommends a 980 Ti or higher as a dedicated PhysX card on high settings. Guess we're heading back to the Ageia days aren't we?

App4that · July 17, 2016

5 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Basically they saying it will only work well if you give them lots of your money.

Oh you're not on on of our high end products? Gimped.

Nvidia support, best

No, the big bad Nvidia monster is not under your bed.

The 970 was enough, but VR is developing quickly and the new games are more demanding and thus the recommended specs moved. Nvidia doesn't want you getting upset you bought a 970 and it doesn't perform in the games you want to play.

Here is a video using the 480, roughly the same performance. The 480 is barely enough, so will quickly not be enough.

WereCat · July 17, 2016

They say single 1080 for Medium VR and single 1080 for High VR..wut?

Also i7 5930?

Eh...

Curufinwe_wins · July 17, 2016

44 minutes ago, cdsboy2000 said:

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So the 970 was the original minimum. The vr fun house demo allows for a much more demanding environment thus it requires stronger GPU's. Additionally the 1060 will be much better in VR as one of the things nvidia explicitly worked on with Pascal was this thing called multiprojection that basically hugely improves the rendering efficiently for curved, surround, and vr projections.