Notebooks for VR (Oculus Rift / HTC Vive)

Existing and upcoming notebooks that should meet Oculus Rift (Consumer Version 1) official requirements

HTC Vive has very similar requirements to Oculus Rift CV1:

Tip: Besides the raw power the biggest gotcha to be careful about is avoiding notebooks with Nvidia Optimus.

Good indication of non-Optimus / Optimus-that-can-be-turned-off-in-BIOS is either G-Sync or SLI support.

GTX 1080 (notebook version)

17 inch

• MSI GT73VR Titan Pro (4.1kg + 0.8kg power supply)
• Clevo P775DM3/DM3-G (4.3kg + power supply)
• Clevo P870DM3-G/SLI (5.5kg + power supply)
• Aorus X7 DT v6 (3.2kg + power supply)
• Alienware 17 R4 (4.4kg + power supply)
• Razer Blade Pro 2016 (3.5kg + power supply)

18 inch

• Asus ROG G800VI (5.5kg + 1.3kg power supply)
• Asus ROG GX800VH SLI (5.7kg + 2x 1.3kg power supply)
• MSI GT83VR Titan SLI (5.5kg + power supply)

GTX 1070 (notebook version)

15 inch

• MSI GT62VR Dominator Pro (2.6kg + 0.8kg power supply)
• Clevo P650/P651 RS/RS-G (2.6kg + 0.9kg power supply)
• Clevo P750/P751 DM2/DM2-G (3.4kg + 0.9kg power supply)
• Asus ROG Strix GL502VS (2.6kg + 0.6kg power supply)
• Aorus X5 v6 (2.5kg + power supply)
• Gigabyte P35X v6 (2.4kg + power supply)
• Alienware 15 R3 (3.5kg + power supply)

17 inch

• MSI GT72VR Dominator Pro (3.9kg + 0.94kg power supply)
• MSI GT73VR Titan (4.1kg + 0.8kg power supply)
• Clevo P670/P671 RS/RS-G (3.2kg + power supply)
• Clevo P775DM2/DM2-G/DM3/DM3-G (3.9kg + power supply)
• Clevo P870DM2-G (47mm | 4.8kg + power supply)
• Asus G752VS (4.5kg + 0.5kg power supply)
• Aorus X7 v6 (3.2kg + power supply)
• Gigabyte P37X v6 (2.8kg + power supply)
• Gigabyte P57X v6 (3kg + power supply)
• Alienware 17 R4 (4.4kg + power supply)

GTX 1060 (notebook version)

13 inch

• Alienware 13 R3 (2.7kg + power supply)

14 inch

• MSI GS43VR Phantom Pro (1.8kg + power supply)
• Aorus X3 Plus v6 (1.8kg + power supply)
• Razer Blade 2016 (1.9kg + power supply) (caution: performance issues)

15 inch

• MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro (1.9kg + power supply) (caution: needs USB extender to reach 2nd port, Rift + touch don't work)
• MSI GE62VR Apache Pro (2.4kg + power supply)
• MSI GT62VR Dominator (2.9kg + 0.8kg power supply)
• Clevo P650/P651 RP6/RP6-G (2.6kg + 0.9kg power supply)
• Clevo P750/P751 DM2/DM2-G (3.4kg + 0.9kg power supply)
• Asus ROG Strix GL502VM (2.6kg + 0.6kg power supply)
• Gigabyte P55W v6 (2.6kg + power supply)
• Alienware 15 R3 (3.5kg + power supply)

17 inch

• MSI GS73VR Stealth Pro (2.4kg + 0.73kg power supply)
• MSI GE72VR Apache Pro (2.7kg + power supply)
• MSI GT72VR Dominator (3.9kg + 0.94kg power supply)
• Clevo P670/P671 RP6/RP6-G (3.2kg + power supply)
• Clevo P775DM2/DM2-G/DM3/DM3-G (3.9kg + power supply)
• Asus G752VM (4.5kg + 0.5kg power supply)
• Asus ROG Strix GL702VM (2.7kg + 0.6kg power supply)
• Gigabyte P57W v6 (3kg + power supply)
• Alienware 17 R4 (4.4kg + power supply)

GTX 980 (notebook version)
the only Maxwell notebook GPU officially blessed by Oculus

17 inch

• Aorus X7 DT (3.2kg + power supply)
• Asus GX700 (3.9kg + 1.2kg power supply)
• MSI GT72S (3.8kg + 0.8kg power supply)
• Clevo P775 DM (4.3kg + 1.4kg power supply)
• Clevo P870 DM (5kg + 1.2kg power supply)

18 inch

• MSI GT80 Titan SLI (4.5kg + power supply)

GTX 980M
close to GTX 970, borderline performance

15 inch

• Clevo P650/P651 RG (2.6kg + 0.6kg power supply) (only new Skylake RG models can turn off Optimus)
• Clevo P750/P751 ZM/DM (3.4kg + 1kg power supply)
• Acer Predator 15 (3.6kg + 0.6kg power supply)

17 inch

• Asus G751JY (4.2kg + 0.8kg power supply) (needs DisplayPort->HDMI adapter)
• Asus G752VY (4.5kg + 0.7kg power supply) (needs DisplayPort->HDMI adapter)
• MSI GT72 QE (3.8kg + 0.8kg power supply)
• Clevo P670/P671 RG (3.2kg + 0.8kg power supply) (only new Skylake RG models can turn off Optimus)
• Clevo P770/P771 ZM (3.9kg + 0.9kg power supply)
• Clevo P370 / P375 / P377 SM-A SLI (4.3kg + power supply)
• Acer Predator 17 (4.1kg + 0.6kg power supply)

18 inch

• MSI GT80 Titan SLI (4.5kg + power supply)