VR Benchmarks

As for Virtual Reality, I love it but it is more demanding than traditional gaming. This is partially because of the resolutions needed to render for two eyes and because they render more than what is immediately visible. But also because of post effects to get the proper “fisheye” effect for it to look proper in your eyes with the HMD. You also have to have much higher expectations for frame rates in VR, skipping frames or lower FPS can cause motion sickness in VR. Because of that, I ran a few tests.

My first test was again in Superposition. This time I tested the VR Future test using the Oculus resolution. Here the RTX 3050 XC Black set itself way out ahead of the 1650 and the 5500 XT but it still came in a hair behind the RTX 1070 and the 5600XT.

My second round of VR testing was in VRMark which has three tests that are similar to the VR tests in Superposition. I only focused on just the most demanding test called Blue Room that is looking more at future VR performance. The RTX 3050 XC Black jumped out ahead of the GTX 1070 on this test and was sitting below the 5600XT. It was also 400 points out ahead of the GTX 1650 but well behind the RTX 2060 and RTX 3060 which were 500 and 800 points out in front still.