Best (VR ready) gpu for my budget

Questaroma · May 10, 2016

Hi everyone, I just bought an HTC vive. It is currently in the mail its way to my house, and I realized, that my graphics card is way too terrible to be able to give good frames for the headset. I have an r7 250. It's discusting, and I need a new graphics card. I don't have any particular budget, which, of course, makes you automatically think, 980 ti of course, but I also want to have SOME money as I would obviously like to actually have some money left over to buy games on my Vive. I'm hoping to not spend more than $600, but I'm willing to pay pretty much anything as long as it's a good experience on the headset. I'd also like to note that I'm not on Nvidia or AMD's side on this one, so either will work.

ak47jar3d · May 10, 2016

Well, the htc vive list the gtx 970 or 290 as the optimal gpu. With the launch of the 1070, you get that card for $380 if you can afford that or just get a 970 for cheaper as the price should fall on the older card.

Gingerbread · May 10, 2016

Well in 2 weeks the 1080 comes out, you could get that, but personally I would just wait for the 1070 which should come out on the 10th of june. If you can't wait then there is always the r9 390x.

Questaroma · May 10, 2016

That's sounds great, my Vive won't be coming for a couple of weeks, so I'll probably just buy the 1080, does anyone know how much VRam it has, I keep seeing different amounts.

Gingerbread · May 11, 2016

1080 has 8gb GDDR5X ram, and that's certain. Also a good thing is - EK announced their custom liquid loops, so if you want even greater overclockability then you can go for one of them. Personally I would just buy one of the AIB models.

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