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Remedy announces very friendly minimum specs for its co-op Control spinoff, FBC: FIrebreak. You only need a GTX 1070 for 1080 60 FPS play. (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Warehouse@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The GTX 1070 was in the upper tier of gaming GPUs when it was released, categorized as high-end on Wikipedia. Most people wouldn’t be able to justify the cost of its kind of performance until years later, even if the next thing didn’t happen…

It's still 9 years old.

About half that long ago, GPU prices tripled, and prices are still absurdly elevated today even adjusting for high inflation. This has significantly delayed a lot of peoples’ normal upgrade cycles, so your 9-year-old GPU is effectively more like a 4-year-old GPU with respect to affordable upgrade path.

a) This isn't Remedy's fault.
b) The card is still 9 years old.
c) You can still play the game with a 9 year old GPU

Back when that card was new, running a first-person game at 60fps 1080p was mainstream and not particularly impressive. That level of performance is mediocre-to-weak today

That wasn't my experience in 2016 when I was rocking an HD 7850, and getting less than 60fps at 1080p for FPS's in 2016, a card that would have only been 4 years old at the time (and technically worse than what was in the PS4).

(And by the way, the other GPU they mention is only 5 years old.)

And about 15 percent more performant than the GTX 1070. With an MSRP about $100 less than it, and it being considered midrange.

Also, none of that really answers my question: What performance were you hoping that this GPU + CPU combo would give you?