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?
I know where they didn't find them:
Alberta.