AMD has said it''s graphics card will be ideal for use with helmets for virtual reality. Members on the Steam forum began to report difficulties with the connection to the HTC Vive helmet graphics cards NVIDIA GTX 1080 (Pascal). It is reported that when connecting the helmet to the port DisplayPort new NVIDIA graphics adapter software does not detect service SteamVR helmet and reports an error. Our colleagues from Tom's Hardware site repeated the situation with the connection and made sure that it is impossible in such a way to connect the VR-helmet to the video card. HTC Representatives also reported the problem.
The forum support NVIDIA GeForce series products official voice - Manuel Guzman said that "... we have received reports of users of the incompatibility of HTC Vive when connecting to the port DisplayPort video card GeForce GTX 1080. HTC and NVIDIA are studying the problem . timF.For th moment, we recommend that you connect HTC Vive to the HDMI port of the adapter GeForce GTX 1080 ".
By the way, HTC Vive connection to the DisplayPort port on the helmet - a backup option for which you want to buy their own adapters DisplayPort-to-Mini-DisplayPort. By default, the helmet must be connected to the HDMI port.