@JEMC

Congrats man.

Pity Hell is Us is not featuring Demo anymore, since you've spent some time with it, but maybe you can try Star Wars Outlaws demo, since that's fairly demanding with all things cranked up - and if you like it, it's on sale for €20.99 til December 18h.

Thanks!

Sadly, I did the GPU change this moring, before I could read your post. In the end, I went with the Shadow of the Tomb Raider and the Guardians of the Galaxy in-game benchmarks. But I still haven't done them with the 9060XT.

I checked Pragmata, but I forgot that it's a Capcom game and, of course, it has Denuvo. And I try to avoid it as much as I can.

Ok so, other than a (not really) panic attack when I got a blanck screen after rebooting that either solved itself or I solved by reminding my monitor that it should display the image coming from its DP cable "you know, the only one that's connected to it other than the power one), things have gone quite smooth.

It surprised my the size difference between both cards, I wasn't expecting the 1070 to lok so big compared to the 9060XT:

An extra bonus I didn't remember was that my 1070 used 1x8-pin plus a 1x6-pin cable. That got not reduced to only the 8-pin one.

Anyway, here are the benchmark results for Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Be warned that it's in Spanish. Not that it affects the numbers, but still:

A bit over twice as much frames, as expected.

I'll post the GotG results on another post later.

And here are the Guardians of the Gallaxy results that I said:

Again, a bit over twice the performance (although those mins aren't great). Nice.

It's those 1% lows that will see the biggest uptick... And scenarios where you were vram constrained. - It should just be a more stable experience all round.
What CPU and System Ram are you running with?

Yeah, I'm sure it will feel a lot smoother.

I got a 7600 CPU and 32GB of RAM, 6000MT/s CL30. I know you won't like that CPU... and I don't love it either (it's still a massive upgrade over what I had), but the plan has always been to upgrade it down the line, ideally getting the equivalent of a 7700X/9700X (or their X3D counterparts) after AM6 launches and AM5 CPUs get cheaper. 

Because of that, it didn't made a lot of sense to spend more on a CPU that won't the "the final" one on this system.

The 7600 is "fine" but I am a bit of a thread-whore.

The issue with buying an "interim" processor is that you need to account for the costs of the temporary CPU (And it's depreciating value if you intend to sell it later to recoup costs) and the faster "final" CPU... So I normally just buy the fastest CPU available, use it until it can't keep up in my primary machine and then do an entire platform upgrade.

For example... Users with the Ryzen 5800X3D for example really won't need a 7800X3D or 9800X3D, so they might as well upgrade to the next-gen platform when it drops.
You should only need to buy one CPU to last an entire sockets life... Entire platform changes does bring with it a myriad of benefits like faster PCI-E speeds, USB speeds and other new platform features that you might otherwise miss out on.

But I guess that is where we deviate in how we build and plan our systems, neither is a right or wrong answer.

Don't forget to update you specs in your signature! :P Especially as you aren't running Haswell anymore.

I know the kind of user you are, that's why I know you'd even consider an 8-core CPU not really worth it (except for the X3D parts if gaming is the main purpose of the system).

I agree with you that getting only one CPU during your systems life is the best investment, but when the budget is tight, you have to make compromises. By the time I buy the replacement CPU, I'd have saved enough money to do it without a worry, a money I didn't have back when buying the whole system last year.

But well, look at it this way, I went from a 4-core/4-thread CPU to this 6-core/12-thread one (not a bad jump), to maybe a 10-core/20-thread or even 12/24 CPU is the rumors are to be believed. The upgrade will be worth it.

And yes, I need to change my sig. More so noe that it no longer has any remaining parts of the old one.

If you haven't already, I'd update the chipset driver. Seems to fix wierd min issues from time to time. And run ddu if you haven't already when switching gpus.

Realistically if you are only gaming, you shouldn't need more than 7600 with a 9060 xt.

I don't remember if I've written about it here, but for a while, I had an issue where after booting up from sleep mode, my PC would not wake up. When I shut it down from the power button and powered it up again, it would take a while and then resume from hibernation, as if it had been sleep mode all along. I felt kinda gaslit from that initially. Anyway, the issue was getting worse, so I very recently updated my chipset drivers, and... so far so good.

Unless you're playing Cities: Skylines II, like I am, in which case it'll take all the CPU computing power it can and maybe even more (depending on the city size, of course). Besides a slightly borked update, I haven't had real issues with my 7700 yet, but I think speeding up the simulation doesn't work to its full extent anymore in my larger cities. But yeah, Cities: Skylines II is probably more of an outlier.