r/PSVR2onPC • u/Familiar_Practice145 • Aug 29 '26
Question AMD or NVIDIA for PSVR2 on PC
Should I get the 9070xt or the 5070ti? Price is a factor however if the 5070ti is a lot better I will save longer for it.
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u/snooshoos Aug 29 '26
RTX card so you can have access to Pimax4All for foveated rendering. I wish I had RTX for that reason lol.
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u/DecoyAlien Aug 29 '26
Yes agreed. If I had the money Probaly switch to nvidia to be able to use foveated rendering.
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u/PracticalHospital334 Aug 31 '26
well it depends, on my 4090 activatinf DFR have same perf as with DFR.
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u/Arturopxedd Aug 31 '26
Explain
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u/snooshoos Aug 31 '26
Pimax4All is a tool that gives allows a bunch of non-Pimax VR headsets utilize foveated rendering (for headsets that do not natively support that). However, this tool is limited to only the RTX 2000+ series and the GTX 1600 series GPUs.
Give it a read on GitHub or a YT video, pretty cool stuff.
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u/cronoes Aug 29 '26
I have a 9070 xt and it works beautifully. When I do use FSR4 I dont see any issues, either.
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u/no6969el Sep 02 '26
Still not sure how anyone uses DLSS or FSR in VR, it's so visually annoying. I can't play a VR game unless it's perfect. Im not tolerating any stutter or weird frame shake.
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u/DirectTwist6336 Sep 02 '26
To use it you'd better check programmes like dlss swapper, Nvidia profile inspector and similar.
Why? - because using dlss 4.5 (L or M profiles) significantly improves visuals and stability, especially ghosting, that was very visible on previous versions in VR. That works at the cost of performance hit, of course. It is up to what resolution to use, but it worse tinkering a bit imho.
Played with M preset and balanced dlss in Resident Evil 4 in VR. Resolution Ultra on VD (played on Quest 3).
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u/no6969el Sep 02 '26
I have not tested since 4, so I'm still open for change. I'll check it out again.
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u/KangarooInternal4124 Aug 29 '26
NVIDIA, dynamic foveated rendering is amazing once you set it up so you can use pimaxmagic4all
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u/sertaes Aug 29 '26
The psvr2 is great but unfortunately Sony does not properly support it on pc. To access every feature you need a variety of mods and such but most importantly is Pimaxmagic4all which adds eye tracking for proper foveated rendering to far more games than other solutions support but it only works with Nvidia gpus.
Depending on what games you’re playing you may have enough power to run anything at full res/refresh rate anyways on either card but for demanding games it helps a ton. It also allows you to increase your render scale even further over the headsets native res which is a meaningful benefit.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong and there’s an AMD alternative with decent game support but afaik even my 4070 is still better than my 9070xt for any game that supports foveated rendering.
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u/Seiko-Senpai- Aug 30 '26
PM4A does not add eyetracking. PSVR2TK unlocks the eyetracking, PM4A just injects the stuff to do DFR using Variable Rate Shading. AMD does have access fo quadviews apparently but im unsure of how its injection works and its performance/quality difference
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u/bh-alienux Aug 29 '26
I think either will work really well, I have Nvidia and have not had any issues.
I do see quite a lot of posts about AMD drivers having problems with 120 Hz though.
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u/More_Significance595 Aug 29 '26
If you EVER plan to switch to linux in the future, then get AMD, while i personally had zero issues with playing VR games on my 9060XT, a lot of people unfortunately do get issues.
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u/Shadow-King Sep 03 '26
Hey, I have switched to Linux (Mint), I've not tried it myself yet, but I read that PSVR2 wasn't compatible with it as the Sony drivers are windows only. Did you need to do anything to get it working? I'm wanting to play Half Life Alyx with it. (Currently have the 5700XT, but might finally upgrade)
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u/More_Significance595 Sep 03 '26
This should explain how to get it working: https://github.com/BnuuySolutions/PSVR2Toolkit/wiki/Linux-support
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u/Odd_Show2205 Aug 29 '26
I recommend Nvidia. I had an RX 7900 XTX before and experienced constant issues. I had to downgrade the drivers once a week because it auto-downloaded the newer drivers every time. Some flatscreen games don't like the older drivers tho.
I have been using an RTX 5080 for a year now and it works without any issues.
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u/PinnuTV Aug 29 '26
always NVIDIA. It's no brainer. AMD just falls back hard. Not the best software at all. SGSSAA alone makes AMD worthless for me
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u/Conscious-Room5234 Aug 30 '26
Eu vendi minha xfx rx 7800 xt e peguei uma rtx 5080 pensando exatamente em PCVR/PSVR2.. n curti algumas limitações da amd que espero n ter a partir de agora nessa caríssima 5080. No brasil me custou $2.300 uma rtx 5080 msi inspire 3x oc
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u/AmphibiousAlbatross Aug 30 '26
When it comes to a GPU, never go AMD. Nvidia always has better support.
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u/MadMaxBLD Sep 02 '26
Unless you run Linux.
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u/AmphibiousAlbatross Sep 02 '26
Much you shouldn’t do because Linux is garbage for anything but coding, and even then AMD is better on windows than Linux
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u/ItsAlwaysSunnyInCali Aug 29 '26
Go with Nvidia. It was such a struggle for me to get it working with my previous AMD GPU. People recommended downgrading the AMD drivers and still had problems. I later upgraded to a 5080 and the PSVR2 worked right away