Not everybody has been capable of entry NVIDIA’s newest RTX 5000 graphics card collection. I am one of many few who purchased one, on condition that I dwell near the Micro Heart in Tustin, California, and this brick-and-mortar location appeared to be one in all a handful of locations to inventory a good variety of the brand new playing cards.
Over the previous couple of weeks, I have been placing the cardboard by its paces and that after all contains testing it out for PC VR. Whereas I personal each a Meta Quest 3 and a PlayStation VR2, I largely examined issues out on Quest 3, because of my VR setup being much more conducive to wi-fi VR.
Utilizing Digital Desktop at Godlike settings, 90Hz and a 100% SteamVR render scale, I set to work seeing precisely how far you’ll be able to push the brand new RTX 5090 card.
The reply? Fairly far. Each sport I’ve thrown at it (up to now) labored like a appeal.
PC Specs
My PC VR setup contains an Eero Wifi 6E router a Ryzen 7 9800x3D, 64GB of DDR5 6200c30 reminiscence, and a 1000w ASUS TUF Gold Energy Provide. The 9800x3D and the RAM are each tuned; within the CPU’s case, a Precision Enhance Overdrive offset of 200MHz with a -15 Curve Optimizer undervolt. For the RAM, the inventory EXPO configuration for the 2x32GB sticks is DDR5-6000c30. I tuned the reminiscence subtimings and managed to get issues secure at a barely sooner clock fee of 6200MHz.
I additionally set the 5090 with a 250MHz overclock to the core clocks, and a 1000MHz overclock to the reminiscence. You could possibly argue that makes the footage I captured under unrepresentative of the 5090 itself, however I argue the overclocking helps offset the overhead drawn by recording 4K60 footage to OBS whereas concurrently urgent the PC to wirelessly stream its high tier visible expertise to my Quest 3. Sure, efficiency on a natively PC VR headset with out the extra Quest 3 streaming and seize might differ from what I present under, however I doubt it could be by a lot.
UploadVR requested me to take a look at a spread of PC initiatives which may convey the ability of this explicit graphics card for the possible NVIDIA patrons on the market who is perhaps ready for his or her card to reach. Or in the event you’re eager about taking the plunge your self? See under to get a way of what the views appear like from this card inside VR.
Video is hosted at as much as 4K on YouTube above and 1080P within the clips under.
Fallout 4 VR Mad God Overhaul Traditional
Fallout 4 VR is a bit infamous for the way tough of a launch it’s, particularly with out mods. Utilizing Mad God Overhaul Traditional, nevertheless, the sport sees a reasonably huge enchancment. With my PC VR setup, the sport runs at a really strong 90 FPS, nothing wanting transformative – even with any remaining technical faults.
Arken Age On Max
In Arken Age totally maxed out within the settings with even the LOD (ranges of element) set to max, the sport seems to be and runs completely, very like Fallout 4 VR did. I did not experiment with it for this piece, however I would not be stunned if I may push the in-game render scale in addition to Digital Desktop’s personal 150% scaling by Godlike settings.
Flight Simulator Extremely
By far probably the most demanding sport on the listing – Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. For this one I used the Extremely preset, with DLSS set to Balanced and the .dll overriden with the brand new Transformer mannequin. I additionally used reprojection for this check, because of how demanding the sport may be on the CPU, relying on the place you are flying. The tip result’s a surprisingly spectacular and clean picture, particularly for Flight Simulator, as you’ll be able to see once I accomplished a high-speed rally race problem whereas within the cockpit in VR.
Future Exams?
Whereas readers are certainly in search of benchmarks on this graphics {hardware} too and, whereas these are definitely helpful, my first have a look at the 5090 in VR merely goals to seize the vibes you may get when you might have this a lot graphics energy solidly delivering that many high tier PC VR software program configurations, together with some with mods.
I do consider this says most of what PC VR fanatics is perhaps seeking to see on the subject of the RTX 5090 and VR. Remark under if there are any recommendations you may need for one thing myself, or others, ought to discover in VR with a graphics card as succesful as this one.
