Nvidia 980 good enough for VR?

Thinking of pulling the trigger and getting a VR headset.

My question is: would a 980 be solid enough for a good experience with VR headsets? I'm likely going to get the HTC Vive.

With the 11xx series coming out over the next few months, I won't be buying a 10xx series card. The problem is, however, when I get the 11xx series card I'm probably going to get a 4K monitor, and won't want to spend any more money on a VR headset.

TL;DR: get VR now, or just wait 6 months and do new vid card and 4K?

If you're willing to go with a Windows MR headset from Amazon instead of a Vive, you can save about $250 and put that towards an 11xx series card. It's not quite as good as a Vive in tracking, but it's still very capable and quite a bit better than PSVR at least.

But yes, GTX 980 will run all VR games just fine. Fallout 4 might be potentially difficult but that's about it.

@mrbojangles25: 980 can not do VR, 4GB vram isn't enough, it'll look bad.

Minimum recommended gpu for fallout 4 VR is a 1070.

I'd say a GPU upgrade would be needed.

Maybe wait for 1100 series since there not far from release.

This isn't true. The minimum requirement for Vive is a GTX 970, and for a Rift it's GTX 960. 980 will work for any headset with any game, except Fallout 4.

Sounds good, thank your for the replies. I think I will hold off for a bit.

Thank you for the information. My 980 is not that much more powerful than a 970, I don't think I'd be comfortable just barely being over the minimum requirements.

Minimum means 1fps with the game running, you NEVER look at minimum.

That is not what minimum means at all....

Even still, I would upgrade the GPU to take advantage of some SS, it helps with the "screen door effect" a bit.