1060 for VR

[germgoatz]

So me and my friend are planning on getting a job for some profit during this summer, and he really wants an Oculus, so I am wondering if a 1060 6gb will be good enough for 60fps or above for any VR game. Thanks in advance!

[paps511]

Probably.

970 was the minimum and I believe a 1060 6gb is just as good, if not better.

There is a Steam app that will run a VR benchmark. See what that says

[light-v]

1 minute ago, germgoatz said:

So me and my friend are planning on getting a job for some profit during this summer, and he really wants an Oculus, so I am wondering if a 1060 6gb will be good enough for 60fps or above for any VR game. Thanks in advance!

Yes the 1060 6GB is marketed as a VR capable card 

[Princess Luna]

VR really is hardly something worth working the entire summer for in my opinion... the GTX 1060 6gb is taken as the bare minimum for it to be functional, so the experience won't be great, not that it would be in the first place even with a Xp for what is worth though.

[germgoatz]

Just now, light-v said:

Yes the 1060 6GB is marketed as a VR capable card 

I know, but nowadays literally everything has the "VR Ready" sticker slapped on it.

[germgoatz]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

VR really is hardly something worth working the entire summer for in my opinion... the GTX 1060 6gb is taken as the bare minimum for it to be functional, so the experience won't be great, not that it would be in the first place even with a Xp for what is worth though.

We're getting him a whole new PC, not just stuff for VR.

[light-v]

27 minutes ago, germgoatz said:

I know, but nowadays literally everything has the "VR Ready" sticker slapped on it.

Fair enough, tho what you want for VR is a card capable of maintaining a minimum of 60fps with the ideal of being stable at 90fps (refresh rate of the Oculus and Vive) which the 1060 6GB can do (but not the 3GB or 1050 Ti) and you absolutely want to avoid stutters 

[KarathKasun]

I would accept nothing less than a 1070 or 1080 honestly.  I've played with VR on a GTX 1050 Ti and have found that you need rendering resolution to be above 1440p for usable output.  With 4k output scaled down to the headset it looks pretty good, but you need tons of GPU power for that to hit 90fps in anything that is new.

 

On the 1050 Ti I was able to play older (using VorpX) or more simple games with no problem.  Think Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Distance, or Race the Sun.  Games like Elite: Dangerous work, but the text of the cockpit interfaces is nearly unreadable with settings that produce a high enough FPS.