oculus link.

[Cocopenut]

I am going to build a gaming pc. I am not going to buy a pcvr headseat. I am building it for oculus link. Would I be able to use oculus link with an APU instead of a GPU and CPU?

[McNutts]

If it is not included in the link below it is not officially supported.

https://support.oculus.com/444256562873335/?locale=en_US

Now I'm not saying it will not work. It might but unless someone that has the same setup as you can confirm that it works you're probably not going to get an answer to your questions.

What APU are you trying to use? Almost every APU that I know of is not going to have the performance necessary to run PCVR with the Quest at anything other than a slideshow frame rate.

[Cocopenut]

@McNutts  The APU that I will get is the 

AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 4-Core Unlocked Desktop Processor with Radeon Graphics

by AMD
The link is here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07STGHZK8/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=scattervoltyt-20&cr...
Thanks!

[enigma01]

Can Link really actually work with any APU? 

I’d be interested to know if anyone as gotten Link to work on an APU. 

Does the Link spec page mean RX Vega (discrete GPU) As it also mentions AMD 400 series etc, but aren’t these actually also called RX 400 so on... depending on the model. These are discrete GPUs aren't they? 

The RX 460 which is apparently an 'entry level' GPU, is 116% faster than the RX Vega 8 iGPU! https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-Vega-8-Ryzen-iGPU-vs-AMD-RX-460/m441833vs3641

[McNutts]

I'm sorry to say but you're not going to get very good performance at all for PCVR with the graphics contained in that APU. It's barely passable at 720p for non-VR games released 5 years ago and that's with every setting turned to low. The Ryzen 5 3400G can't even play older games at 60FPS at a resolution of 720p with almost every setting turn down to the lowest possible setting.

The bare minimum I would recommend someone to get for VR is a RX580 and that's only if they can't afford anything better even if they save up for another year. 

If you want the cheapest possible option and have to buy now get a Ryzen 3 3300x and a RX580 GPU. I would recommend you wait until the new GPUs launch and buy a used GPU. They will be launching around September through December. A lot of people will be upgrading to the latest and greatest and you will be able to find some good deals in the used market to make your money go further. I know I'll be selling my EVGA 2080 Super Ultra once I figure out if which is the fastest VR card out of the 3080 ti, 3090, or Big Navi from AMD.