To achieve 60fps at 1440p you need to have a nine hundred dollar GPU. This has to be satire. My one year old 12gb 3080 cannot even post 60 fps. Pathetic, the devs should be ashamed of this sloppy work.
Welll sometimes we all have to take a step back and look at the big picture.
Ok, so regardless of this game's looks, its up to the devs to decide what even entails the "high" settings, there is no rule on what high needs to be, they could have changed what is now low into high and assuming the game scales well, then suddenly now performance is great on "high" settings.
Hell Crysis (remaster) did this even in a funny way, its almost to expose how emotional people get around this topic, their lowest settings are called high and medium is called ultra and high is called enthusiast, so to preserve the "dignity" of pc gamers, you never run the game on "low"...technically.
And you can call me old but the sliders really dont do a lot between low and high, sure I can see some distance model detail and shadow etc but overall.. I mean idk if I was able to see if the game was running on low medium high or ultra by purely a screenshot on its own without direct comparison screenshots.
And that is kinda the silly concept that always revolves around pc gaming with tweakable settings.
If you could play with a 3080 at 1440p at 60fps with all settings on medium and some on high....with it looking nigh the same as ultra....would that really be such an issue?
Alex from DF does his optimized builds exactly like this, he checks what settings can gain performance with minimal hits to the visuals and yeah often you get something looking extremely similar but performing 20 fps better.
(that does again,sits loose from the fact that this game does not look great, good or even decent....)
EDIT, looking at the game comparison shots and the performance graphs with the 4080, we see about a 10fps boost from going to medium settings and 20 fps from going to low (which again, to my eyes, looks nigh identical and we have not even factored in using DLSS or so at that point)
So DLSS Quality or one step down, 1080p upscaled to 1440p, should already basically give you 60fps and then with perhaps a few settings tweaks that visually do not matter you can gain some more.