Recently I upgraded my i5 2500K to a Ryzen 7 1700. After some teething issues, Winblows kept putting almost everything onto CPU0 causing the system to crawl, Elite works brilliantly in VR now.
With my GTX 1080 I can run Elite in VR Ultra settings with no dropped frames and a processor usage of a little over 30%. Compare that to my i5 where I had to use VR Med/High depending on if I was on a planet or in space and I would often have the frame rate drop below the magic 90fps for VR, causing stutter in the game.
My next thing is to try the software allowing you to display video (well any desktop window) in VR so I can play Elite and watch a movie in VR lol