VR Benchmarking
How to Tell if Your PC is VR Ready
With affordable PC-compatible headsets like Quest 2 and soon even PSVR 2 support, it's easy to jump into PC VR. For the gamers considering purchasing a PC VR headset, one major question marks the starting point on your journey...
Futuremark to Launch New DirectX 12 Scene for VRMark Benchmark
Benchmark specialists Futuremark are launching a new ‘room’ on November 22nd as a free update for VRMark Advanced & Professional Editions. Adding to the existing ‘Orange Room’ and ‘Blue Room’ benchmarks, ‘Cyan Room’ uses a pure DirectX 12 engine...
NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti vs. 1080 VR Performance Review: Supersampling Showdown
NVIDIA's latest GPU is here and it offers a big performance bump, but what exactly does that power deliver the VR gaming enthusiast? We pit the new Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti against the GTX 1080 to see just how...
Analysis: Latest VR Ready GPUs Benchmarked and Compared with NVIDIA ‘FCAT VR’
While it's been possible to run basic benchmarks on VR-capable GPUs for a rough understanding of performance, NVIDIA's new FCAT VR tool allows detailed logging and analysis of runtime data captured from any VR app on any GPU. We've...
NVIDIA Announces ‘FCAT VR’ Frame Analysis Tool to Help Demystify VR Performance
The latest version of NVIDIA's FCAT VR analysis tool is here and it's equipped with a wealth of impressive features designed to demystify virtual reality performance on the PC.
NVIDIA has announced a VR specific version of its FCAT (Frame Capture...
First Look: Basemark’s ‘VRScore’ Benchmark Arrives With a Unique Solution for Accurate Testing
Basemark has officially launched its virtual reality performance benchmark, VRScore and the package comes complete with an ingenious, low-cost hardware assisted solution to help ensure results are accurate.
I've written previously about how tough a problem benchmarking virtual reality hardware...
Futuremark Explains Why VR Benchmarking is About More Than Just Numbers
Futuremark have now released the full version of their long awaited, dedicated virtual reality benchmark, VRMark. And, after months of research and development, the company has found itself having to redefine its own views on how the difficult subject...
Basemark Has a Dead Simple Solution to Precisely Measure VR Headset Latency
Helsinki based Basemark has created a simple device called the Trek which works with their forthcoming VRScore benchmark to measure the latency of VR headsets in both left and right eyes.
The VRScore Trek is an elegantly simple device that...
First Look: VRMark Benchmarking Suite Analyzes VR Headsets & Hardware
Futuremark, the 3D performance benchmarking company behind 3DMark, is working on VRMark, a virtual reality specific test the capabilities of your gaming PC and VR headset, using some ingenious hardware.
PC gaming and benchmarking have gone hand in hand for many...
Crytek and Basemark Announce VR Benchmark Using CRYENGINE
Finnish benchmarking company Basemark have today announced that they're working with game technology house Crytek to produce a virtual reality specific benchmark to test how well your gaming hardware can handle the forthcoming consumer VR revolution.
Hot on the heels...
Futuremark Announces “VRMark” Virtual Reality Benchmarking Tool in Development
Futuremark, the Finnish company specialising in synthetic performance benchmarking software, has announced it's to turn its hand to measuring immersive technology performance with VRMark, its first virtual reality benchmark.
Futuremark has been a stalwart of the performance PC community scene...
