Looking for upgrade advice

[Kite591]

Budget (including currency): $1500 (CAD)

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Games: Fortnite, Halo Infinite, Euro Truck Sim 2, Random games from Xbox Game pass for PC. Other programs: OBS, Chrome (I'm one of THOSE people who has 20+ tabs because I don't want to close them and lose them and I forget that there is a bookmark button), FB messenger for Desktop and Discord for group chats, and some emulators (Citra, DeSmuME, etc)

 

Other details: I currently have a Ryzen 5 3600x paired with 32 GB of Corsair Vengeance ram in dual channel, an Asus 2060 super (not sure model as it came as part of a prebuilt I got a few years back), a 750 watt Thermaltake ToughPower series semi modular PSU on a ASUS ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Hero (wifi) MOBO. I have two Acer VG240Y S 1080p 165hz monitors via DisplayPort on my desk for gaming and streaming and a 4k Samsung TV running at 1440p 120hz from the HDMI for my content consumption.

So what I'm wondering is would upgrading to a 3070 ti get me any noticeable improvement on my streams and games or if I would be too bottlenecked by the CPU. If I would be too held back by the CPU I was looking at upgrading to the 5600x. I run my streams at 1080p 60fps while using Nvenc encoder and while I'm streaming I tend to also have a friend or two's stream open in the background and I run into problems where my game will crash or have crazy lag spikes (even when not streaming) while trying to also have streams or other things open for group chats. I am also one of those people who likes to try to run the games at their highest settings even if I am not getting the best framerates. The exact GPU I was looking at was the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 ti VISION OC 8G Graphics Card, 1830 MHz 3X WINDFORCE Fans, 8GB 256-bit GDDR6X, GV-N307TVISION OC-8GD G10 as it is currently one of the few 3000 series in stock locally and I don't have the money to step up to the 3080. The 3070 ti is $1,149 or bundled with the 5600x for $1,388. Should I wait for something like a 3060 or 3060 ti, is the 2060S good enough for now and I just need to look at a CPU upgrade, or is there something else that would better help stability while gaming/multitasking. Any recommendations would be awesome and feel free to ask questions in case I missed something.

[Shimejii]

if you are streaming, upgrade to the 5800x, or 5900x. Then for GPU wait another month, pricies are coming down VERY fast, so before long they should hopefully be more reasonable again

[191x7]

For what you've written, nothing below Ryzen 7 5700X would actually do good. Ryzen 3900X or 5900X would be my recommendations.

And then a GPU later.

[Jonathan Lee]

As others have said, I would go upgrade at least to a 5700X, 5900x ideally as you heavily multi-task. I think that should still fit in your budget to do a CPU and GPU upgrade. Upgrade example:

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor  ($559.00 @ Canada Computers) 
Video Card: ASRock Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Challenger D Video Card  ($849.00 @ Canada Computers) 
Total: $1408.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-03-18 13:56 EDT-0400

 

If you want good ray-tracing, then 3060ti or 3070 would also be enough for 1080p