Question on increasing "per eye" resolution

[Santa Claus]

Recently I tried experimenting with increasing the resolution per eye through the SteamVR settings. The higher I increase it, the slower everything gets, but the image quality can be made as high fidelity as a flat screen. So my question is this. Is the decrease in FPS due to my computer not being able to render the increased resolution to my Quest 2 or is the problem the Quest 2 is unable to process the increased resolution fast enough?

My computer is pretty powerful and can run most games at the Ultra or highest settings. But then again, I understand the GFX card is now rendering two scenes instead of one.

So should I upgrade the computer or is it not worth it if the Quest 2 is the bottleneck.

[¡fingersportplayerman!]

to be honest, im not completely sure since i was having the same problem. but the quest 2 isnt the best hardware wise, whats your specs

[Santa Claus]

Geforce GTX 1060 6GB. 16GB memory. i7-8700 @3.20 GHz processor.

[¡fingersportplayerman!]

yeah a little lower than mine but i think its just related to the headset

[Santa Claus]

You said you were have the same problem. Did you upgrade to a better headset? What is your resolution setting?

[Bob Loblaw]

The problem is your GPU. GTX 1060 is the min spec for VR. VR not only renders twice, once for each eye, but at 90 Hz.

[Santa Claus]

What GPU would you recommend?

[Bob Loblaw]

For VR, the fastest Nvidia GPU you can afford, up to and including 3080.

[Santa Claus]

Bleh. It's a bad time to upgrade a GPU. Most people are selling +$200 over MSRP for the 3080.

[RatBoggles]

Wait for whatevers coming after the 3 series, it's "around the corner"
Plus like you said gpu prices are fukd right now