Now I know people have run Vives and Rifts on the 2017 Imac models (to varying degrees of success) but I have no idea if the Index would run due to display port requirements (the other units use the HDMI ports). I'm simply saying there are no official VR capable macs out of the box yet. However, it does not mean you can not run a headset on your laptop. Performance wise, it's just slightly below a RX 480/Nvidia GTX 970 which was considered minimum spec for VR with the first wave of headsets (Rift + Vive) in 2016. I probably should have been a bit clearer hereĪ Radeon Pro 580 is below minimum spec requirement. Seems I'll just wait until I can buy an RTX for my PC. Originally posted by untmdsprt:So you're telling me that I need to buy an eGPU when my iMac has a Radeon Pro 580 built in? Seems kind of pointless in my opinion, but what the hell. You'll get much better performance and not suffer that drop off eGPUs have. Personally though (given the costs), I'd just say don't bother and build your own VR capable PC. You'll want at least something like a RTX 2070 or better. As such, if this is a route you choose to go down, you'll probably want to get a very high end card as going entry level wont cut it. eGPU's will suffer, on average, a 20% performance loss due to bandwidth limitations. You can just buy an eGPU to add to your mac which will make it VR capable. This is purely down to the GPU.and even the GPU in the base Mac Pro is low end for VR (AMD 580 x). The only "official" VR capable Mac (when it releases) will be the 2019 Mac Pro (which last I read, is not out just yet). Sadly though, not a single released out of the box Mac currently meets those specs, least of all a 2017 model. Makes no difference if it's a PC or Mac as long as you meet those requirements. GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970+ or AMD RX480+Īvailable DisplayPort required, HDMI not supported I'm going to save you a headache and / or waiting around for an official answer. Seems like it would since it uses the Steam driver. Originally posted by lucas.feijo:Any news on this?
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