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HTC Vive VR Valve demo runs on GTX 980

by on05 March 2015


It can run AMD too

We still hope that there is a chance that we can see the HTC Vive demo in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, but we have a slim chance, right next to hell freezing over. 

A few distinguished colleagues that we ran into at the event were saying that Vive VR is the best Virtual Reality kit so far. These people tried Oculus in all iterations, Galaxy VR and everything else available, just like yours truly, and they didn’t feel dizzy after 15 minutes demo.

The folks from CNET and Android Central also liked it. CNET even thinks that Oculus should watch out and Phonedroid has a great video that tells a lot.

It turns out that editors who had a chance to see it, including our friends at Anandtech, could not see the hardware machine and what kind of GPU was being used. It was reported that there was a single GPU nothing too powerful like tipple SLI or Crossfire.

We can now confirm that the demo unit has Geforce GTX 980 graphics and we got the info form people close to the matter. It can run other GPUs, it can use AMD cards too, but the one at Barcelona demo just happened to use a Geforce GTX 980.

This is all you need, a single GPU. Some people expected that you need more than one GPU to run the demo. HTC didn’t let journalist take picture of the demo room or the demo system, just the glasses.

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