Help with GPU Change

[thiagomoraes]

Hi everyone,

 

Need a little help with a possible upgrade.

 

My Specs:

i5 2400

Radeon HIS 7970

8gb Ram

SSD: 128GB OCZ Vertex 4

HDD: WDG 1 TB

Asus P8Z68-V

Corsair GS 700w 

Thermaltake Chaser MK-I

Monitor: 1024x768 (Very bad/old monitor)

 

Aim:

I'm using my computer for my master degree using GTA-V and Oculus Rift DK2. I've created a cognitive training for traumatic brain injured patients using GTA-V as my virtual environment. However, FPS and reliability is far from optimal especially because I'm using Vorpx and I need to see what my patient is doing. Currently when I press ALT+F with VORPX I have 30-40 Game FPS and around 72 Direct Mode FPS. 

 

I'm considering upgrading my GPU for a GTX 1060 or a RX 480, what do you guys recommend? Is it going to be a 'huge' improvement or not enough? Is my CPU going to bottleneck the new GPU (1060 or 480)? For now my game settings is normal. Something that Worries me (not sure if I should) is my GPU usage (see image for more details) but running GTA for a minute or so, walking the path my patient will do, don't keep my GPU at 95% +. Can I get a better performance If I change my CPU instead of my GPU?  

 

My computer is going to be used only for GTA-V in VR. I'm considering this GPUs (I'd like to spend the least possible):

 

Zotac 1060 mini 3GB (199U$)

Sapphire Radeon 480 (229 U$)

GTX 1060 Turbo (259 U$)

 

Thank you in advance. 

Edited October 7, 2016 by thiagomoraes

[mattk]

I found this!

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Oculus Rift

• Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 or better.
• CPU: Intel Core i5 4590 or greater.
• RAM: 8GB or more.
• Video port: HDMI 1.3.
• USB port: 2 USB 3.0 ports.
• Windows 7 SP1 or newer.

http://www.octopusrift.com/building-a-vr-pc/

[thiagomoraes]

7 minutes ago, mattk said:

I found this!

http://www.octopusrift.com/building-a-vr-pc/

Thank you, but that does not answer my question. Oculus Rift Consumer need a higher spec system when compared with Oculus Rift DK2. And I don't have nearly enough money to spend on a 1070. So I need to know if a 1060 and/or 480 is going to be enough for my current system. 

 

For now I can get solid 80-130 fps in GTA-V benchmark, but I don't know if that is the same when I use GTA with Oculus

[Guest]

That i-5 is definitely going to bottleneck your card.

 

Personally I would either buy a new CPU like a I-5 6600K and a slightly better GPU, it all depends on your budget.

 

Also this whole traumatic brain thing sounds very interesting, could you please elaborate? 

[Brooksie359]

18 minutes ago, thiagomoraes said:

Hi everyone,

 

Need a little help with a possible upgrade.

 

My Specs:

i5 2400

Radeon HIS 7970

8gb Ram

SSD: 128GB OCZ Vertex 4

HDD: WDG 1 TB

Asus P8Z68-V

Corsair GS 700w 

Thermaltake Chaser MK-I

Monitor: 1024x768 (Very bad/old monitor)

 

Aim:

I'm using my computer for my master degree using GTA-V and Oculus Rift DK2. I've created a cognitive training for traumatic brain injured patients using GTA-V as my virtual environment. However, FPS and reliability is far from optimal especially because I'm using Vorpx and I need to see what my patient is doing.  

 

I'm considering upgrading my GPU for a GTX 1060 or a RX 480, what do you guys recommend? Is it going to be a 'huge' improvement or not enough? Is my CPU going to bottleneck the new GPU (1060 or 480)? For now my game settings is normal. 

 

Thank you in advance 

I would go with the gtx 1060 as it is more than enough power for the oculus rift Comercial version and has new technologies in it to optimize vr performance. The cpu will probably bottleneck but I really don't know if there is much you can do about that without a larger investment.

[thiagomoraes]

1 minute ago, Puhtutz said:

That i-5 is definitely going to bottleneck your card.

 

Personally I would either buy a new CPU like a I-5 6600K and a slightly better GPU, it all depends on your budget.

 

Also this whole traumatic brain thing sounds very interesting, could you please elaborate? 

I feared that the CPU would bottleneck, but wasn't sure. 

 

My budget is something like 200-300 U$ at maximum (that's why I thought GPU change could be nice). I'm from Brazil, so the price is 4x more expensive to me. 

 

About Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), I'm working in my master thesis to develop a cognitive training protocol using Virtual Reality as treatment for TBI patients. VR can be very replicable and ecological. Ecological, because you can make scenarios that depict the reality the individual live in. I choose GTA-V for his depiction of traffic, pedestrians, and because it's graphics.
 

[thiagomoraes]

24 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

I would go with the gtx 1060 as it is more than enough power for the oculus rift Comercial version and has new technologies in it to optimize vr performance. The cpu will probably bottleneck but I really don't know if there is much you can do about that without a larger investment.

My problem is if it is worth the difference, I'm only going to use it for GTA-VR and nothing else. I'm from Brazil so the price is 4x higher. Imagine that the difference is 120 U$, is the performance improvement from GTX 1060 worth the price difference? 

 

And I read somethings about AMD having better drivers in the long run, should I consider this? 

 

 

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, thiagomoraes said:

My problem is if it is worth the difference, I'm only going to use it for GTA-VR and nothing else. I'm from Brazil so the price is 4x higher. Imagine that the difference is 120 U$, is the performance improvement from GTX 1060 worth the price difference? 

 

And I read somethings about AMD having better drivers in the long run, should I consider this? 

 

 

the gtx 1060 is more expensive than the rx 480 where you are? in that case if the rx 480 is $120 cheaper then i would go with that. 

[thiagomoraes]

Just now, Brooksie359 said:

the gtx 1060 is more expensive than the rx 480 where you are? in that case if the rx 480 is $120 cheaper then i would go with that. 

Actually Im going to visit USA in the next couple weeks, that's why Im considering purchasing. A Zotac 1060 in Brazil cost something like 455 U$

and a Sapphire Radeon cost around 429 U$ (couldn't find a 1060 turbo here). It's hard to explain, but for us is not just 30U$ difference. Every 1 U$ = 3,4 BR$. When you put in perspective is almost 4x the difference. That's something I am having trouble with. 

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, thiagomoraes said:

Actually Im going to visit USA in the next couple weeks, that's why Im considering purchasing. A Zotac 1060 in Brazil cost something like 455 U$

and a Sapphire Radeon cost around 429 U$ (couldn't find a 1060 turbo here). It's hard to explain, but for us is not just 30U$ difference. Every 1 U$ = 3,4 BR$. When you put in perspective is almost 4x the difference. That's something I am having trouble with. 

if you're buying in the us shouldn't you look at us prices? 

[thiagomoraes]

I am looking at amazon, I've updated my post with what I have in mind. I was just trying to give you some context =S

[thiagomoraes]

38 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

if you're buying in the us shouldn't you look at us prices? 

I am looking at amazon, I've updated my post with what I have in mind. I was just trying to give you some context =S

[Brooksie359]

8 minutes ago, thiagomoraes said:

I am looking at amazon, I've updated my post with what I have in mind. I was just trying to give you some context =S

tbh i don't think amazon is the best place to buy a gtx 1060 from right now. their prices are really inflated right now. 

[thiagomoraes]

3 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

tbh i don't think amazon is the best place to buy a gtx 1060 from right now. their prices are really inflated right now. 

Where could I look it for? I think I only know Neweeg, bestbuy and ebay 

[Brooksie359]

11 hours ago, thiagomoraes said:

Where could I look it for? I think I only know Neweeg, bestbuy and ebay 

Newegg they have good gtx 1060 6gb versions for $250