I use the same computer for personal gaming and development but I’m not sure if I should get a GTX 970 so I can make sure the game I make is compatible or a more powerful graphics card like the 1080 for my own personal use. Is anyone here deving on a powerful graphics card like the 980? If you are how can you be sure your game works on the 970?
Dunno about checking if the Project works on some lower end Graphic card. We use a 970 at work here, so I have the limitations always in mind.
If you want to get a new card just for VR. Wait for the Benchmarks of the AMD Polaris Cards. The 480 will cost $ 199 and has this “Premium VR” perfomance tag.
You could possible underclock your GFX to test for lower tiers… But I would probably get a rx 480 to test on. It kinda depends on how serious you are, your company.
If you’re like me, just get the big gun and forget lower tiers… because I won’t ship a game anyway, so who cares about performance?
Also you should keep in mind that you “only” would have to get everything performant from the minimum VR specs 970 up to 1080.
Either way, as said. You should not really care that much about the lower tier Graphics, since everyone who has a HTC Vive will probably have good Card anyway.
The 1070 coming out soon has performance competing with a TitanX for 400 dollars so I’d go with that assuming you can get one before they sell out.
Yeah, the 1070 seems to be the price/performance champion for now. 1080 if you can afford it and enjoy the highest frame rates across games.
To test compatibility, you’ll want to get something a lot lower than a 970, like maybe even an Intel Iris Graphics system. Get it with slower CPU and less RAM, too, and a spinny disk, so you know exactly how bad the “average consumer” would experience your content.