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You couldn't buy AMD GPUs during the lockdown. That was the problem. The interest was there, the cards weren't. Since lockdown ended people are buying them. It shows in the Steam numbers and it shows in retail shops that display sales figures. During lockdown AMD cards were more expensive...

Yes, there was huge interest in RDNA 2. The problem was that it was extremely hard to buy one. In some regions they didn't even supply directly from AMD, Like the UK. And you are also wrong about those cards not selling now. The sales numbers for Mindfactory.de are put up nearly week. For the...

No, That's the same old sorry BS that the AMD faithful keep spouting. There are a few different variations of the same phrases that have been going around for years. "AMD produce great GPUs but people buy Nvidia anyway" "People want AMD to do better so they get their Nvidia GPU cheaper" etc...

Seriously, can you stop quarterbacking for AMD over these problems? I told you once before to stop lumping all these issues into one. Manufacturers needing to update the headsets was a separate issue. AMD had two issues in VR a stuttering issue and a performance issue. The stuttering issue was...

Sorry, but please tell me how that strategy has worked for AMD? Because what you are saying is exactly what AMD have been doing for the last 15 years.

I take it you are/were a crypto miner?

Sim Enthusiasts are a niche of PC gamers. The ones with a VR headset are a niche within that niche. Ask any developer about the numbers in PCVR. When the Quest 2 came out, developers were reporting a 20x increase in revenue between selling on PCVR versus selling standalone. I don't the numbers...

Ouch, doesn't sound great.

I am not so sure about that. VR itself is growing however PCVR doesn't seem to be. Even with the most optimistic figures, the number of PCVR users is tiny. Going by Steam there only seems to be around 2.7 million PCVR gamers. You wouldn't want look at the concurrent numbers as that's totally...

You have a 7900 card? Why not run your own benchmarks and put up the results here? Run some games/VR benchmarks with an older AMD driver set and run the same benchmarks with the drivers containing the fix. I believe there were specific games where the stuttering happened all the time. I think...

That seems like a very early placeholder for something that we aren't expecting until October. Maybe it's coming earlier than everyone thought?

No, it's nothing to do with that. The costs have already been paid if you are using a game engine. And this is kind of the point. There really are no development or cost reasons for not using both techs in your game. One man studios have no problem doing it. So, somebody, somewhere has made...

The implementation of DLSS and FSR in games is trivial these days. They are included in game engines. There is almost zero development time and cost. With Unity and Unreal it's almost literally tick the box to enable. Your Seam Figures are way off. the 28 million figure is the number of...

This isn't a reason. IF you are using TAA in your game or are using any of the major game engines, both DLSS and FSR are easy to implement. Or are you really suggesting that Respawn, the game studio behind Apex Legends, could only afford to put FSR but not DLSS into Star Wars: Jedi Survivor?

Sorry, you are comparing/confusing two different things. One is a problem that some headsets have with the latest graphic cards, the other is the performance of 7000 cards in VR. Those are two separate issues. The second problem is entirely AMD's problem. Babeltech did a review across a range of...

Haven't watched the video, but the Pimax Crystal has arrived in a much better state than the previous video suggested it would. The biggest problems seems to be the things that they are going to ship later. The powered USB hub and the proper Lenses. The plastic lenses they sent out as a...

You will have to buy two versions of any game you want to play. Sharing the same play space isn't a problem from a technical point of view as each headset will be paired to a specific computer. However, sharing a play space probably isn't recommended if you playing any games where you will be...

The Rx 570 wasn't competing against the 1050Ti. It was going against the 1060 3Gb. AMD had a large price gap between the RX 560 and the RX 570 and the 1050Ti sat right in the middle of that gap.

What are you talking about? The OP is look for a new GPU. It's right there in the thread title. "I want a new GPU for VR" What?

At the expense of FOV though, if they want to keep the headset in any kind of reasonable price bracket. The FOV of the Beyond is 90' and 93' according to the specs. If they follow the same trend as every manufacturer so far, the actual FOV will be smaller than the listed specs. Maybe because of...

Don't go by that video, things have improved since then. Search for some videos from this year.

How would it not? Ignoring everything else, it's using the XR2-Gen 2 cpu. Which has hardware AV1 decoding. From a PCVR point of view, that should have a significant improvement on the visuals and the latency. But, I also think the lenses and the screens will be better than those found in the...

The Quest 3 will be far better than the Pico 4. Half the weight and at least twice as powerful as the Quest 2. But, yes, it will also be more expensive. That sucks man, hope you get it sorted.

The Pico 4 is better for PCVR but it's not $400 better, if you know what I mean. And the Quest 3 is coming later this year, which sounds like it's going to be a proper upgrade. Personally I don't think it's worth it to move to the Pico 4 with newer headsets coming this year. On the other hand...

Not if you soak the banana in lemon juice first. Which is what they are talking about here, trying to make sure things age evenly.

Have you got a Quest 2 already?

Yeah, I wasn't saying that his list was right. And you are right best is subjective. During the earlier days of GPUs, things were easier to define as "best" as there were clear differences and bringing completely new graphic technology to the market(Voodoo's, Riva's etc). Or there was massive...

Well, a few things you have to remember, AMD priced the card as a high end card even though it was only a midrange one. It was a good bit slower than the 680 when it launched. They had to release a Ghz edition just to get equal to the 680. And It wasn't until November that it was actually...

Surely the 1080Ti was the best of the Pascal cards. The 1080 was way overpriced at launch, remember the 1080 FE was $699, the 1080Ti was also $699. And can you really include the 7970 when it took them 9 months for them to get it right, and it too was overpriced at launch?

I don't know about everyone wanting their own cards on the list. I didn't own the 9700Pro or the 8800GT or the GTX 970. There are some cards like the 8800GT and 9700 Pro that should be on any objective list of top GPUs. About the 660 GTX in SLI. Why would 680 owners be crying salty tears...

My 7 best GPUs would be the following. One of the early Riva TNT/TNT 2. They were all so good at that time. Picking one would be nearly impossible. 9700 Pro. No contest really. 8800GT, again, I don't think anyone will argue with this :) It gets a lot harder to pick after this. 4850/4870...

The 7970 was great, eventually. Remember, it released at a stupid high price of $550, nearly a $200 price increase on the 6970. It was slower than the 680( a mid range card), which launched two months later at $499. AMD had to go back and up the clocks(the Ghz) and reduce the price. However...

If the 8800 or the 9700pro was released in during an unprecedent lockdown and the biggest mining boom, their prices would have been sky high too. What I mean is that it seems unfair to judge any GPU released during the mining boom and lockdown based on the inflated prices caused by both events...

Here is a post from the Chief about OLED. I think this partially answers your question. https://hardforum.com/threads/which-vr-headset-to-buy-in-2020.2000533/page-4#post-1044849926

Yes, it can. Other posters have mentioned some fixes, but, they haven't stressed the important one enough. The second you start to feel nauseous you stop playing take off the headset and go do something else. Don't play for one more minute or until the next break in play. Don't say to...

I remember seeing the same kind of posts back in 2016/2017. I believe It's nearly 20 million sold now.

I will be shocked if you can go back to using the Index. It's a low res headset these days with really bad glare. I can't even go back to using the Index after the Quest 2.

I don't understand why the 4070Ti is getting all the hate? If Tech Reviewers had any integrity and honesty they would have hated on the 4080 and the 7900 cards as well. They are all terrible for the price they are asking. These cards are all so badly priced that the 4090 looks like good value...

Truth? What truth? The GPU industry is where it's at because of mining. The 4090 and 7900XTX are in short supply because AMD and Nvidia are limiting production to sell off the huge amounts of stock left over from when the mining bubble burst. Nvidia even came out with a statement saying that...

I presume you are or were a miner? A statement like this could only come from a miner.