SteamVR Performance Test

Marine-RX179 · 16 Mar 2016 at 15:57

Cooper said:
I've run the test several times now and get the same 10+ score each time and GPU usage in afterburner monitor is showing both of my 970's splitting the rendering at about 40-50% each.

You have limited the frame rate to 60fps?

The testing of performance is based on rendering at 90fps+, and how frequently that it drops below that..

Cooper · 16 Mar 2016 at 16:26

Marine-RX179 said:
You have limited the frame rate to 60fps?

The testing of performance is based on rendering at 90fps+, and how frequently that it drops below that..

Quite right, but raising it to the 90fps still puts me well above whats needed with headroom to spare:

..anyway the only point I was making is that its now effectively using SLI, which it wasn't doing when first released.

stooeh · 16 Mar 2016 at 20:59

Mine runs with 1 card (~1369 MHz) at 100% usage and the others at idle clocks - Get around 125 fps during most of the test which results in a score of ~7.

ci_newman · 18 Mar 2016 at 16:31

Been playing with my OC settings to see what gains could be had. Some very good results by increasing the memory clock speeds!

i7 4790k @ 4.7, 290x @ 1100/1650

siriq111 · 21 Mar 2016 at 10:34

Just did one more run with some extra OC on GTX 580 :

james.miller · 21 Mar 2016 at 10:39

still broken then, lol.

siriq111 · 21 Mar 2016 at 10:44

Don't know

This is the latest version, now the test even ask me if i want to share the result with valve! Well, of course i want to share it

Pinter75 · 24 Mar 2016 at 13:44

Just upgraded from an 8 year old XP box to an OCUK VR Ready PC.

Captain_Bosh · 27 Mar 2016 at 11:35

Tested on both my systems a couple of days ago without overclocks, the 295X2 seems to handle it pretty good

Asus Maximus VI Formula with i7 4790k and 295X2 (10.5 Very High)

Asus Sabertooth 990FX Gen3/R2.0 with FX8350 and R9 290 (6.4 high)

Firestar_3x · 27 Mar 2016 at 19:37

james.miller said:
still broken then, lol.

Or talking out of his rear, i know which is more likely

Abooie · 29 Mar 2016 at 11:19

364.51 / 364.72

Pretty similar to other 980ti results. I have a gigabyte gaming overclocked by 100, so it runs base 1252, but actually closer to 1500.

The processor is not overclocked.

Ran the test just before and after installing the new drivers. Interesting.

chef-borjan · 29 Mar 2016 at 13:45

The new driver pushed me up from 7.5 to 8.2, lets hope that it really helps my 970 out with VR!

mikeym · 29 Mar 2016 at 16:32

Is this right for 7950/280 crossfire?

mikeym · 29 Mar 2016 at 16:41

mikeym said:
Is this right for 7950/280 crossfire?

Well, I ran it again without any system changes and the score is a fair bit lower (from 8.2 down to 6.7):

stooeh · 30 Mar 2016 at 11:07

Ah so it needs the -multigpu switch to use SLI...

Celebryn · 14 Jun 2016 at 11:27

I am so gutted, that I only heard about this VR kit AFTER I bought a gaming laptop, which cant run VR through HDMI

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picnic · 14 Jun 2016 at 14:49

Can you not force Steam VR to test using the NVidia card in the same way you'd tell it to use it for games? Or disable the gfx switching and run purely through the NVidia? Might that help?

Celebryn · 14 Jun 2016 at 15:03

The test itself was using the nvidia to run the program and do all the heavy work, the issue is that it then runs it through the onboard to get to the HDMI. I believe, from what I have read, that this is what slows it down too much. I am hoping the mini display port, is direct to GPU and doesnt use the onboard at all.

millermilla · 14 Jun 2016 at 17:29

Just out of interest what are people's real world experiences. From memory my 970 i5 scored 7.8 and I've tried all sorts on VR and it's been rock solid

Celebryn · 15 Jun 2016 at 12:28

Hmm just decided (as my GPU is dying and I will need another) to run this test on my PC. Does this mean (as long as i have the right ports), that I can get away with just upgrading my GPU and not have to change anything?? 8GB RAM.

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