The Geforce RTX 5060 8GB is what the Geforce RTX 5050 should have been.

Honestly what I think the market needs is a cheap low-profile, single-slot GPU's that only need PCI-E power, the slimline DELL/HP workstations that get depreciated and sold for almost nothing often just need a cheap GPU to do some basic gaming... I have my Core 2 Quad PC with it's Geforce 1030 GDDR5 that could do with an upgrade.

It does match the Radeon 9060XT in terms of memory bandwidth, but it should come up short in gaming.

I went the traditional way, with scaling set to 100% and upscaling to off, reducing the settings to low (ith some mids). But it's still a 1440p monitor, so it was asking a lot from my poor old card. It was barely playable, but enough to get an idea of how the game plays. 

And I think the game also had FSR3, not that I payed a lot of attenttion to them all.

Oh, FSR 3 is indeed there - I could've sworn it was greyed out before.

Man, my honest opinion, just try out upscaling - you're on 1440p, so try FSR3 Performance (which is 720p) and see how it feels/looks for you - for all the talk about DLSS, FSR3 is still quite usable. And if you manage to get at least 35-40fps, try frame generation as well. I know, I know, it's not native, it's not real frames...but I think you'll find out you can squeeze much more out of your aging 1070.

I'll think about it but can't promise anyhting. I still have four demos to try before Monday and, while they're from already released games, I don't know if they'll last beyond the 16th or not, making them my priority.

If I manage to play them and have a little time, I'll give Hell is Us another go with FSR3.

Well, it was more of a general advise, but works in Hell is Us case as well :P

Anyway, IIRC, you like games like Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines...well this is solo only character stealth adventure with that sort of gameplay, so you might like the demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2377280/Eriksholm_The_Stolen_Dream/

I appreciate your interest, but I'm the kind of person that doesn't react well to being told what to do. Suggestions work better with me.

And yes, I like Commandos and those kinds of games, and I didn't know about this one. I'll give it a try for sure, thanks!

If you were in Australia I would put my old RX6600 XT in a box and donate it to you for a free 30-50% performance boost.

Thanks. I'll upgrade one of these days (hopefully sooner rather than later).

Well. Got back home, 9060XT 16GB is in... Able to run Oblivion Remastered all ultra settings at 1440P with 35-45fps. (I have a VRR display so it's not jarring).
Meets my requirements... Minimal stutter on my system except when you first load the game up and it has to stream assets in.

The 6600XT was doing a max of 6fps at the same settings.

Actually rather impressed with what overpriced mid-range GPU's can do these days... My A.I upscale render times for DVD's went from 4-6 hours down to 20-30 minutes, going to save me a ton of time and power for my DVD upscale NAS project.

Sold the old Radeon RX 6600XT on Facebook for $50 in about 5 minutes flat (Literally), I just wanted to get rid of it... The era of 8GB GPU's is over, so to me it's depreciated hardware.

And finally got to unpack the Switch 2... Which, has many aspects I like... I.E. 1080P, VRR, larger display... But the lack of an OLED panel is a big regression when playing games like Ori and the Will of the Wisps with those high contrasts and bursting lights.

Oh damn, I think you could've got at least 4x as much for that 6600XT

I know you're against non-native, but I'm interested to hear how you find FSR4.