Current Specs:
Intel® Core™ i7-14700K
Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB
64GB Ram
Gigabyte Z790 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard

 

Hi Everyone,

I only fly in VR using a Quest 3 and looking to upgrade something with a budget of about £750 to give me better VR clarity/quality. Your thoughts on wether I should change RTX 4070 Ti card to the AMD RX 9070 XT or keep my RTX 4070 Ti card and purchase a Pimax Crystal Light instead...or is there anything else worth considering?

Your thoughts please.

On 5/21/2025 at 8:10 PM, Boasey said:

Current Specs:
Intel® Core™ i7-14700K
Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB
64GB Ram
Gigabyte Z790 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard

 

Hi Everyone,

I only fly in VR using a Quest 3 and looking to upgrade something with a budget of about £750 to give me better VR clarity/quality. Your thoughts on wether I should change RTX 4070 Ti card to the AMD RX 9070 XT or keep my RTX 4070 Ti card and purchase a Pimax Crystal Light instead...or is there anything else worth considering?

Your thoughts please, fnf games.

I’d lean toward upgrading the headset first since VR clarity is more limited by display resolution than GPU at your level. Are you currently hitting performance limits in your main sims or mostly just noticing blur?

 

I'd focus more on upgrading to a GPU with more VRAM, with a Quest 3 you're already at the limits with a 4070ti. So with something from Pimax you'd get more clarity but your performance will suffer.

A 9070XT would make a reasonable improvement for you, afterwards you can consider a new headset.

GPU first, Id agree; I have a similar setup with the Quest 3 and a 4060 and the VRAM too low message is the bane of my existence. Pop-ins and stuttering in VR when looking too quickly currently prevent me from using VR more. I dont think the Quest 3 is a bad headset by any means, coming off the Oculus stuff a generation earlier it felt like magic to be free of cords and base stations, hand tracking and passthrough etc