Interesting - conflicting replies, doesn't make it easy to decide if I am going to drop $AUD 450 on a new video card.

Any other suggestions then for an alternative?

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein

11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz   3.50 GHz
64.0 GB (63.9 GB usable)
Geforce RTX 3060 12 GB
Windows 11 Pro