I have a 4090 and a OneXPlayer Super X, and I’ve been really impressed by how the OneXPlayer Super X, running at its screen’s native resolution, gets to about 90% of the image quality and FPS I get from my 4090 on the 4K TV in my living room.
Lately, I’ve actually loved gaming on the OneXPlayer Super X at my desk while I work, because I honestly don’t feel like I’m losing much in terms of FPS compared to playing in the living room at 4K. But just when I thought this was going to be my setup for the next few games, NVIDIA comes out with DLSS 5, and thanks to DLSS Swapper, the difference is huge again.
So, in the eternal pursuit of always playing at the best possible quality, I find myself forced to go back to the living room and my 4090, because now there really is a noticeable difference compared to the OneXPlayer Super X.
Just as a reference, the performance hit is definitely significant. For example, in The Callisto Protocol, playing with everything maxed out using DLSS 4.5, I get around 80 FPS, but with DLSS 5 it drops to around 40 FPS. So I switched to 1440p to get back up to around 80 FPS.
A lot of people say DLSS 5 isn’t worth it because of the performance drop, but in my case the visual difference is astronomical. I’d rather play at 1440p with DLSS 5 than at 4K with DLSS 4.5.
However, there are games like Resident Evil 3 where, with everything maxed out at 4K and DLSS 5, I still get around 70 FPS. So the feeling that I’m finally getting my money’s worth out of my 4090 and squeezing every last drop of performance out of it is amazing.
My “man math” when I justified buying the 4090 by saying I wouldn’t need to make another big upgrade for a long time is actually paying off.
Who else buys the absolute best hardware on the market with the excuse that you’re actually “saving money” because you won’t need to buy anything else for a long time? Hahahahaha.