If I wanted to max out my VR experience with a HP Reverb G2, how much Vram would I need on my graphics card? Is 12 GB enough, or would 24 make a noticable difference?
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How much Vram do I need?
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I'm not planning on using supersampling with the Reverb G2. Native resolution should be more than enough. But I would like to turn up as many quality settings as possible. Im told that textures love Vram.
What card do you have?
So what headset, what settings, what fps in an active RES and what Vram usage?
In VR, the more the merrier. You are rendering twice the amount of textures. In the VR benchmarks I have seen graphics RAM usual often gets very close to 8GB, often over. The 3080ti performs very similar to the 3090 in VR. Especially compared to the 3080. I wonder if it due to the 2 extra GBs of RAM? Don't know.
Just found this excellent video by Immersed Robot, suggesting that 8GB should actually suffice. One thing is allocated Vram, usage is another thing entirely:
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSs-l1BYot8
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The most Vram I've seen used on my 3090 & HP Reverb G2 is 13.3GB, running at max settings
Interesting. So that would be 90hz, ultra settings? What kind of fps do you get in an active RES?
Just got GPU mem at 15.2 GB, docked at McQuay Holdings
90hz, ultra / max settings everything, but using the "AMD FSR 1.0" not "Normal" in the Upscaling setting
Running game from Steam VR at 100% (3164 x 3092) and HMD Image Quality x1.25
Getting a minimum FPS 44, but usually around 80 / 90 ish
CPU Ryzen 9 5950x with a slight overclock (max 60 Deg temp)
GPU RTX 3090 FE is undervolted (max 58 Deg temp)
Both CPU & GPU are watercooled. I'm using the EKWB Active Backplate for the 3090 FE keeping the GPU Memory cool
Excellent intel. Thank you very much. Hm. So 12GB Vram seems to be a bottleneck for optimal VR performance. 3090 it is then.
You can get a 3090 FE from ebay UK at £999.99 nowExcellent intel. Thank you very much. Hm. So 12GB Vram seems to be a bottleneck for optimal VR performance. 3090 it is then.
Avoid the £950 one I'm not convinced its new as stated, the back of the box seals don't match the others listed or the box for my FE
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Ed plays in lower res in a window pc while you run in vr, you wont run the vr in normal native resolution. Therefore you will use supersampling to boost performance as you need to generate a screens worth of pixels per eye.
Basically needing to run your gpu in 8k, 4k eye if possible
To achieve this and not waist resources you wont run your monitor at normal resolution
Basically needing to run your gpu in 8k, 4k eye if possible
To achieve this and not waist resources you wont run your monitor at normal resolution
They're actually cheaper here in Denmark.
