The card handles tessellation. And it can be disabled so people with lower rigs can still run. See the Heaven benchmark.
For those that are running VR, check your overclocks. You may think your overclock is stable, but it really isn't. I had my water cooled 1080 ti overclocked to 2088. Sure, it ran fine. And by that I mean that it didn't crash. I even had it up to 2101 at one point. But when in VR I had tracking issues. The view would jigger, figger, and not look good. The display would lag behind.
I don't know what prompted me, but I decided to reduce my overclock to 2037 and lo! All of the problems I had with VR were resolved! As a disclosure, I'm also running an FX8350 @4.5ghz with 2133 memory (MSI sucks for overclocking). That might actually be limiting my overclock. But it's worth a check for anyone overclocking.
For those that are running VR, check your overclocks. You may think your overclock is stable, but it really isn't. I had my water cooled 1080 ti overclocked to 2088. Sure, it ran fine. And by that I mean that it didn't crash. I even had it up to 2101 at one point. But when in VR I had tracking issues. The view would jigger, figger, and not look good. The display would lag behind.
I don't know what prompted me, but I decided to reduce my overclock to 2037 and lo! All of the problems I had with VR were resolved! As a disclosure, I'm also running an FX8350 @4.5ghz with 2133 memory (MSI sucks for overclocking). That might actually be limiting my overclock. But it's worth a check for anyone overclocking.