Originally Posted by
GustavMahler What about the GTX 1080 though? Seems like it could surely handle 4K, maybe even 8K at medium settings. This card is a real beast.
Seems like it should but in reality it can't. Well let me rephrase that: It can't at high quality settings.
Most of today's popular games that came out this year or recently barely break 60fps on the 1080 at 4k. Let alone even reach the realm of 90fps which is what is needed by most headsets. Now most VR games probably do not have all the popular graphical features of these more advance and recent games (I am talking like BF4, BF1, Dirt Rally, The Witcher 3, Tomb Raider, GTA V) but still stands that the 1080 can barely do 4k and most people are not willign to sacrifice visual quality for the ability to run at 4k and I would further contend that if you are a VR user you are even less likely to want to reduce visual quality (Like AA) in order to run at 4k.
So to my previous statement: This next generation of hardware may be able to finally run games at 60FPS at 4K consistently. Maybe. But 8K? We are a heck of a long ways off. At least 2 generations if I had to guess if not more. If there is even a demand for it at that time. We may end up being focused on standardizing HDR displays and video cards may focus on that technology while improving 4K content. Since no one has an 8K display really
So this begs the question: Do we really need or even want an 8K headset at this time when we can't even run half of the resolution at an acceptable quality and framerate?