Can You MAX a Philips Evnia 5K2K 240Hz Monitor with an RTX 4090?

How Much Does it Cost?

Maxing out a monitor such as the Philips Evnia 49″ 5120×1440 240Hz QD-OLED is no easy task. The answer, as is often the case with such things, is money, and lots of it. The monitor its self is a wallet-busting £1649.99 and you can expect to drop anywhere £3000+ for a PC that can really take full advantage of it. My own system comes in at around £4500 by the time you get into the case, cooler, PSU, storage, RAM, etc. Combined with the cost of the monitor, you’re hitting £5000-6000 easily. However, if you want to game at 5K2K and 240Hz, then that’s the entry price for such things.

Overview

Obviously, this is all total overkill, but it’s been a fun experiment while I had one of the most extreme gaming monitors on the planet to play around with. For me, this monitor was just too big for daily work, I felt like an owl turning my head to see various elements of my desktop. However, for gaming, it’s pretty hard to beat. The immersion is certainly there, and even just being able to see more of the map in Cities Skylines 2, or having that wrap-around feel while playing Flight Simulator 2022 makes it all worth it.

For fast-paced competitive gaming, it’s an exceptional experience, offering some of the highest refresh rates, widest views, and lowest latencies on the market today. Again, that comes at a premium, but you do get a lot from your money.

It’s strange now going back to my humble 3440 x 1440 21:9 screen with its 144Hz refresh rate, but it’s certainly much easier to live with and work on day to day, and hardly slumming it in terms of gaming performance.

Obviously, games like Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and other AAA single-player graphical titans like Alan Wake 2, to name but a few, most certainly won’t max out the 5K2K resolution and that 240Hz refresh rate. However, I largely found that breaking 120 FPS in pretty much anything was easy enough given the overall power of the gaming system. So while current-gen hardware can’t max out this monitor in every game, this monitor can certainly let you max out your GPU and CPU with current-gen games.