What are the VR ready notebooks

With the sale of HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, it can be said to reignite the high-end and high-end host market. Currently, two large VR headers have been sold that require the GTX 970 or higher desktop to be unique, instead of being too clear on the configuration of the laptop. Perhaps everyone is also very concerned about their own game can be driven by VR head display. Therefore, the author will be the mainstream of the game today alone through the HTC Vive, to see what in the notebook can be qualified to play VR.

What is VR Ready

As the VR equipment is in the rising stage, there is no uniform standard between the VR display manufacturer and the graphics manufacturer. However, for the graphics card requirements, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift require GTX 970 or higher levels. Note that the above two manufacturers are clear recommendations are desktop GTX 970 unique, there is no unique to the notebook to make clear recommendations.

However, Nvidia's own "GTX VR Ready" standard explicitly states that desktops need to be GTX 970 or higher, and that only GTX 980 (mobile version) is in the notebook, where GTX 980 refers to a mobile version, not GTX 980M, Obviously, this high requirement is not for every player to buy.

Test object

In this test, I selected four games, they are equipped with: GTX 965M, GTX 970M, GTX 980M, GTX 980 (mobile version) alone. The purpose of this selection is to believe that we are more clear, is to pass the actual test to see what configuration game can drive VR, smooth running VR program.

Left: GTX 965M, right: GTX 970M

It is noteworthy that the test of the GTX 965M for the GM206 core version, the frequency is higher than the old version, performance improved significantly. In addition, GTX 980 is a mobile version, not a desktop version of the platform, need to mention attention. This VR test all through the HTC Vive connection, and actually runs "the Lab" game the specific scene carries on the test, in the test process will record the frame number, through the frame number dynamics to show the game operation effect.

3DMark Performance Test

To further demonstrate the difference in performance of the four Zhong Xianka, let's look at the 3DMark results of the four graphics cards first. Fire strike mode is a common pattern for testing high-performance, and also a common test mode for desktop terminals, in which we can clearly contrast them.

Left: GTX 965M, right: GTX 970M