Download the SteamVR performance test to see if your PC can run the Vive

Matt Porter Feb 22, 2016

HTC and Valve announced the price of the HTC Viveyesterday, and we now know the specs that your PC will need to be able to run it, too.

If you don't want to figure it out yourself, Valve has released a SteamVR Performance Test tool ( this link will open Steam directlyand allow you to download it). Once you have it installed, the tool will evaluate your system by plonking you down in an Aperture Science testing facility. This is a portion of the demo we've played to test out the original Vive and Vive Pre hardware.

Once the benchmark is finished, it'll give you a breakdown of your operating system, your GPU, and your CPU, and tell you which parts you need to upgrade, if any. It looks like I'll need to upgrade my four year old graphics card before I take the plunge with the $800 headset.

Here are a few examples of the benchmark running on different systems, from our own PCs and collected from theseReddit threads. Keep in mind that performance can vary between runs based on what other applications you have running, an overclocked GPU or CPU, etc. Don't expect an exact correlation between these results and your own hardware.

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