Hehe yeah over double the price for 10 to 15 FPS. But the thing is the 8kx needs every little bit of GPU processing power there is available. I am still going to try and wait and see if a 3080ti becomes available for a better price.
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If it was 10 to 15 fps extra I would get one at a drop of a hat but it looks like it’s going to be more like 3 to 7 fps extra - really hope I’m wrong!!
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to be fair, the 8kx is doing pretty ok with 1080ti’s on most games currently available. but sure, if you need the ultra res mega texture pack or always 75hz option then it falls a bit short. but claiming that it neeeeeeeds an rtx 309999 to be able to even start a game is a bit much 
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I am struggling to get Alien Isolation to look any good at a decent frame rate with parallel projection enabled. I think 8kx looks better and better as you increase SS but yes even at native resolution the 8kx looks great. The 1080ti is still a great card.
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Yeah I should have added that there’s games that would absolutely need a newer card to look good and almost every game will look better with less reprojection / more supersampling.
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I feel like even the 3090 wont be enough for certain VR games just because of how poorly optimized they are, for example: No man’s sky
But combine 3090 with DFR from eye tracking and you’ve got a total beast that could run smooth in every VR game ever made.
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I am still on the fence (undecided) about DFR. There still seems to be a lot of Pimax customers not happy with it.
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I got a question about the 3090 and I haven’t been able to find an answer for this on the interweb. Will the larger memory bus width of the 3090 play a part in reducing stutters and giving a smoother vr experience?
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takes some getting used to like wearing small contact lens, I think ffr is sometimes more comfortable , suppose it depends on the game
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I’m defo interested in eye tracking and DFR too, but i’m waiting until the product and software stack is refined. How’s it like to anyone using it? How many folk have got it working in a game?
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I’ve only spend like half an hour in nms, probably just auto steam settings but I did not feel like i had a bad experience on my 1080ti equivilant. I’m sure it could look extreemly amazing if you throw enough money after it but it was absolutely playable (on the start spot i was at)
i hope our eyetracking will improve but right now I’d not put my money on dfr.
If it works in that game… 
Since I haven’t had any luck with extending the DP cable (3m Club3D extension didn’t work) I haven’t played any room scale games on it yet and haven’t found any obvious seated/controller games where it works.
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When I get my 3090 FE this weekend I’ll share my results of those benchmarks listed.
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The wider bus on the 3090 will certainly help framerates, because of the higher bandwidth. I think it will be especially helpful for when using larger super sampling and larger (or more) textures. That means it will “play a part in reducing stutters”, but it’s hard to say how much. It might be pretty minor.
The best indication is the improved performance at 8K (flat screen) resolutions. Since the 8KX uses 2 4K screens (at native res) the improvement will be somewhere between the framerate increase (over the 3080) at 4K and 8K resolutions. Remember, 8K res has 4 times as many pixels as 4K, so an 8KX should get roughly twice the framerate as 8K flat screen res on the 3090.
Elite Dangerous probably falls in that category too. The biggest issue with many games is the need to use Parallel Projection, which is a ~30% framerate reduction “tax”. Suddenly the 10-20% framerate improvement of a 3090 becomes appealing.
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the problem with assuming that any 8k benchmarks will carry over to the 8kx is that they will almost certainly, unless specifically stated otherwise, have been done with dlss ON at a much lower real resolution, and we do not know how well dlss will work for VR in the future but it doesn’t work in the present.
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What headset was he using for those results?
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Valve Index, seen it on the OpenVR shot
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Thing is he was using 200% supersampling so I’m guessing (I don’t have an Index) that’s it’s a pretty high resolution, right? + ultra/max settings in most games (disregard HL:Alyx as that will auto-scale the settings/supersampling AFAIR)… 
EDIT: 200% supersampling on the Index is only 2792x3104 according to this:
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