I think the release of the 40 series and particularly the 4090 is very important to VR and especially to Pimax.
Even with one of the previously most powerful GPUs available on the market, the 3080 Ti, I have found running games on the 8KX to be a struggle because of how demanding its dual 4K screens are. The display on the 8KX is glorious, but you have to carefully tune and sacrifice to get the most you can overall.
I haven’t been able to get a 4090 yet, but I expect the large performance gains to finally make the GPU not feel underpowered for the 8KX.
Besides improving the frame rate and allowing for higher quality settings, it’s going to have a big effect on making using the 8KX easier. Why? Because it won’t be so important to carefully fiddle with each new game to try to find the absolutely most optimal video settings. More games will work well enough right out of the gate with little to no effort.
The 4090 really enables Pimax’s upcoming VR headsets. The Crystal has the same number of pixels to push as the 8KX, and the 12K has even more. Pimax needs that GPU umph.
I expect it will also have an effect on causing the rest of the VR industry to advance, too. I don’t think the displays on VR headsets have been particularly held back by what pixel density is possible in the displays, but rather how much GPU is available to drive them.
I also think that the needs of VR were a major driver for the increase in TDP we’re seeing in the 40 series. VR creates demand for that brute force!
@Heliosurge It might be a good idea to make a mega thread for launch 4090 problems with Pimax headsets. Right now, posts about such issues are getting scattered onto other threads where they are not really on topic. This both tends to zonk the topics of those threads and makes important information about launch 4090 issues harder to find because its hidden in not quite relevant threads.
Damn that makes me think it’s a general steamvr/nvidia issue when resolution is too high on 4090. Surely it will then affect other headsets too on such resolution ( and thus not looking good for xtal neither)
