VR is such an insanely demanding medium that everyone’s always going for the best they can because damn do they need it.

So, I thought I’d see if the 4090 can properly drive the highest resolution headset on the consumer market and compare it to the previous king, the 3090 TI, who still got beat up bad by this. Is the 4090 finally the card to unlock VR’s true potential?

These are just some quick benchmarks and comparisons as I was limited on time to use my 3090 TI. Thought I’d also do some I haven’t seen much of yet, because everyone’s already done things like MSFS.

Fholger’s VR Perfkit used for the FSR mod in all games but RE7: https://github.com/fholger/vrperfkit

TEST SPECS:
EVGA z690 Dark Kingpin motherboard
RTX 3090 TI/RTX 4090 GPU
Intel i9-12900k CPU
6000Mhz/CL30 DDR5 RAM
4920×3160 per eye for all benchmarks, except for the surprise one at the end of 3800×3160

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:46 Test Configuration and set up
02:48 Guildford Castle – A strong start
04:17 Pavlov VR – CPU still an issue?
05:18 Project Wingman – Sometimes a small uplift
06:42 SURV1V3 – Double performance?
08:17 RE7 VR mod settings
08:52 RE7 VR – Massive gains, still a struggle at large FoV without FSR
10:28 RE7 VR – Almost solid 90hz at normal FoV
11:05 RE7 VR – Ray Tracing at high FPS&Res in VR? YES
11:56 Conclusions