I went 1070 to a 6800xt last year. 7800xt/4070 is a perfectly viable upgrade route. I’m getting 2-3x the performance lol. The pp$ turns into shit past $500 though. I would recommend discounted 7800xt if you want the best pp$. It actually performs close to a 6950xt in a lot of newer titles, even better with a light OC (AMD makes OC dumb easy).

Pretty annoying how AMD GPUs are plagued with bad core to hotspot deltas. I got the Red Devil and still have 30 C delta 🥲. I do plan to open and play around with it. For now I just increase the fans. I do have pretty good silicon. Can do 2.5 GHz on the core and 2150 MHz on mem (fast timing) without increasing power limits and lowering voltage down to 1020mV. Usually get around 7-10% more fps.