VR Mark
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Eager to see if your PC is ready for the demands of a virtual reality headset? VRMark could be the benchmark you need. Offering two virtual reality tests and with no headset required, this free-to-download utility is a useful method of gauging your system's VR readiness.
A new addition to the suite, these two tests give you some idea of the VR potential of a system. A score of 5,000 is enough to meet the requirements for both tests.
You would fully expect the GTX 1080 to produce high framerates at the lower-resolution Orange Room test, and indeed it does, returning an average 251fps metric. The Blue Room test, however, is much, much more taxing - both in terms of resolution and on-screen detail. As such, whilst being nearly 50 per cent faster than a Fury X, the Asus GTX 1080 manages 50fps out of the required 109fps. There is no single-GPU card that can come anywhere close to a fluid experience... and we're not even rendering at 4K per eye.
What's clear here is that Nvidia's £600-plus GPU is better at this test than AMD's finest.