Yep, it's VR ready. It uses the NVidia 1070 chipset. There's a lot of published benchmarks out there but the lowdown is that it won't perform as well as a 970 in SLI when SLI scaling is perfect, but you'll see far more consistent frame rates out of the 1070. The 1070 will also give you less problems with games that do not support SLI scaling, less heat, and will consume less power. It's also newer, eventually NVidia is going to stop making drivers for the 970.