You’re not dealing with the same kind of constraints as say the power difference of a PS4 versus an Xbox one when it comes to the difference between a Pro and an X. The PS4 has better things that help it in much better ways, which is why games pushed for a higher resolution on PS4 over one, even though power wise, the one could have in theory delivered. It wasn’t designed right from the start and lacked in a few key areas, notably bandwidth with memory. Remember how in the 360 days you essentially got 2x AA for free in certai cases?
Anyway, the battle of Pro and X is different. They are, essentially, the same thing. The pro has fp16 yes, let’s get it out the way, and also get it out of the way that it’s never going to be used effectively so why bother bringing it up, to be fair. People like TLW will have you believe it’s the god send saving grace but at most with any developer you’re looking at tiny gains in realworld situations.
But the machines are the same... except for raw power. The x can simply push more raw power than the pro. There should be NEVER a situation where if both consoles outputted the same resolution and settings, the pro should win. Ever. If it does, that’s lazy programming.
However, what’s happening here, is that the higher your resolution is, the bigger the hit to frame rate. Once you increase resolution, you also increase the COST of asset rendering. Fillrate cost goes up dramatically, screen space effects cost is increase, post processing, anti aliasing etc, it all goes up. So what devs think is they go “oh this is performing lovey st 1440p on Pro, let’s whack it up to 4k o x” and then stop caring... when in truth, that’s a recipe for disaster.
So in Athems case, yeah the pro will run it better, at reduced visual settings. But under visual parity the X would win in a heart beat. They should simply lower the resolution from 4k down to higher than Pro But not 4k level. Then you would see much more stable frame rates.
But of course, any second now TLW will barge in and tell us all it’s because the Pro is delivered by the god that is Verny, and the x is actually half the speed, or something...
In short, it’s just stupid devs making stupid decisions because the Pro and the X really are not a priority for them.