Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X or GTX 1080 for VR

[maximevanvliet]

I can get an used gtx titan x maxwell 12gb vram version for 350 euro's , or I could get a 1080 for around 400 euro's.

What is the best card for supersampling in VR ? Titan X or gtx 1080 ?

 

[JalYt_Justin]

1080 is probably better. Titan X Maxwell has more VRAM but the architecture is older. Due to the newer architecture the 1080 will run games in general a lot more smoothly than a Titan X Maxwell.

To get into it, Titan X Maxwell has more CUDA cores by about 500 IIRC. However the 1080 has a much, much higher base clock which means the extra CUDA cores means pretty much nothing, since in games clock speed is everything. Titan X has 12GB of VRAM, but its memory speed is lower than the 1080 (7 Gbs vs 10 Gbs). Really that doesn't make too much of a difference in gaming, but as I said, faster clock speeds in games in better. The memory bandwidth between the two is negligible. The newer Pascal architecture means the 1080 will run more efficiently than Maxwell will, and more games will be optimized for Pascal over Maxwell. The only reason to take the Titan X Maxwell over the 1080 is if you're going to be using all of the extra VRAM, of which I doubt you will with VR.

EDIT: In real use even the 1070 is better than the Titan X Maxwell. The pure clock speed and efficiency of the Pascal architecture makes the difference.