Pimax’s Crystal Pro hits 120Hz only on a cable it calls optional and leaves out of the box

The Pimax Crystal Pro is sold as a wireless PC VR headset, and the top number on its specification sheet is the one that needs a wire. Pimax’s Frontier 2026 FAQ answers the question directly: “Can I still play wired? Yes. Connect via DisplayPort over a single cable, the same way as the Crystal Light and Crystal Super. Wired, the panels run at their full 120 Hz.”

Pimax’s own specification graphic for the Crystal Pro. Image: Pimax

The cable that does it is not in the box, and Pimax says so in its own announcement. The October 6 press release lists under power and connectivity: “An optional DisplayPort 1.4a cable connection is also available for wired PC VR use.” Both documents were read at 22:03 UTC on October 7.

Neither in-box list contains a cable

Pimax publishes two inventories of what a buyer receives, and they agree. The press release says: “In the box: Crystal Pro headset, two ringed SLAM controllers, a 16,000mAh external battery pack, and a Wi-Fi adapter.” The FAQ says: “The Crystal Pro comes with 2 ringed controllers, an external battery, and a Wi-Fi dongle.”

Neither mentions a DisplayPort cable, and Pimax has published no price for one. The 60G AirLink kit is the one extra the FAQ calls an optional paid upgrade.

The wireless kit tops out at 90Hz where you are looking

The 60G AirLink kit is the headset’s headline feature, and it is a $599 upgrade in the US, or $1,899 bundled with the $1,399 headset. Pimax describes what it delivers in one sentence: “Combined throughput is up to 6 Gbps, delivering an image equivalent to 2880 x 2880 pixels per eye at up to 90Hz in the user’s focus area, without video encoding.”

That is 90Hz, not 120Hz, and the figure is scoped to the area the wearer’s eyes are on. Pimax gives no refresh-rate figure for the rest of the view, and none at all for the plain Wi-Fi path that every Crystal Pro ships with. The headset’s panel specification, meanwhile, reads “refresh rates of 72/90/120Hz”.

The kit is two Room Antennas for the play space, two headset antennas and two USB-C cables, running in a 2×2 MIMO arrangement that Pimax states is the first 60GHz link of its kind on a VR headset. Pimax puts the added latency at under 2 milliseconds, publishes no method behind that figure, and notes that “As with other 60GHz wireless systems, the signal does not pass through walls”.

So the three ways of feeding the headset land in a clear order. Wired runs the panels at 120Hz on a cable sold separately. The 60G kit, which costs more than a third of the headset again, is quoted at up to 90Hz in the focus area. Wi-Fi comes with the headset and carries no published figure at all.

Pimax edited the FAQ on October 7 and the answer stands

Pimax has been revising these pages since the announcement. The blog feed on Pimax’s own store records the FAQ as last edited at 18:32 UTC on October 7, and the wired 120Hz answer and the in-box list both survive that edit. The FAQ’s visible date line still reads October 6.

None of this is new behaviour for the line. The Crystal Pro’s panels and lenses are the ones already in the $899 Crystal Light, and Pimax points at exactly that in its answer, saying the wired connection works “the same way as the Crystal Light and Crystal Super”. What is new is that the headset is pitched on cutting the wire, and the wire is what unlocks its best number.

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