Home / PC / HTC Vive’s recommended system requirements are here

HTC Vive’s recommended system requirements are here

Matthew Wilson February 22, 2016 PC

The HTC Vive is set to arrive at the start of April, with pre-orders for the $800 virtual reality headset set to go live next Monday. While we have known about recommended PC specifications for the Oculus Rift for some time, we haven't heard much on the Vive side of things until now. Today, HTC revealed the recommended PC specification for those looking to game on the Vive.

For the most part, the requirements are similar to that of the Oculus Rift, calling for an Intel Core i5 or AMD FX-8350 CPU, at least 4GB of RAM and a Nvidia GTX 970 or Radeon R9 290 graphics card.

htc-vive-product-1-e145210254861311

For video output, you will need an HDMI 1.4 or DisplayPort 1.2 connection and for USB ports, you will  actually only need one 2.0 port, rather than the Oculus Rift's four USB port requirement. SteamVR will also run on Windows 7 SP1 or newer systems. The HTC Vive starts shipping on the 1st of April and will come bundled with two games, Job Simulator and Fantastic Contraption.

You can check if your PC is up to the task using Valve's just released Aperture Science/Portal demo benchmarking tool. 

KitGuru Says: The Vive is set to launch very soon and it seems that requirements for VR on PC will be consistent across the board. However, the game selection still seems a bit weak to me but hopefully, Valve can fix that with their own title should they actually be working on one. 

Become a Patron!

Tags

Check Also

DLSS 5 NVIDIA

KitGuru Games: DLSS 5 misses the point

It would be hard to argue that NVIDIA’s DLSS technologies haven’t been a net positive to the PC space, with the machine-learning based upscaler successfully translating lower resolution inputs into a final image which is perceivably sharper while hogging fewer resources. Though somewhat more contentious, the next evolution of DLSS came in the form of Frame Generation, using ML in order to generate additional frames for high-refresh rate gaming. Both techniques can have their issues, but generally speaking they’ve allowed for more people to experience higher-end titles at increased frame rates. DLSS 5, however, takes a sharp pivot, with a very different end goal in mind than the performance-boosting versions that came before.

© Copyright 2026, Kitguru.net All Rights Reserved Standard Terms