Is a Ryzen 7 3700X processor and a Geforce RTX 2060 a decent combo?

I'm thinking about upgrading my pc, and I think this combo might be a decent option, but I'd like a few opinions. Thing is, I need to keep the Graphics card and processor at around $300 each, so yeah. Currently I'm running a Ryzen 5 1600 and an AMD RX 570. I'm hoping to be able to run modern and future games at 2K, medium to low-high settings at 45 FPS or higher with these upgrades.

So is the Ryzen 7 3700X processor and a Geforce RTX 2060 a decent combo in your opinion?

It's alright, you can also buy Ryzen 5 3600/x and 2060 Super, should cost about the same and you'd have more fps.

That's the way to go XD

Yeah second cutting back a bit on the CPU and putting it towards the GPU. A Ryzen 5 3600 and a more powerful GPU would be the better overall combo.

If you want cheapest upgrade option, just upgrade your gpu. at 1440p that Ryzen 1600 will be fine. That 1600 is only holding back RTX 2080ti in games like Ghost Recon Breakpoint using Vulkan by 6% avg fps, Doom Enteral by 8% avg fps and Resident Evil 3 its not holding back RTX 2080ti at 1440p vs i9 9900k .

IMO upgrading to a 3600 is a waste of money, while a 3700/3800 would be a good upgrade, however with AMD releasing 4000series Ryzen's later this year I would wait, more options open up...you would be to get cheaper 3000 series Ryzen's or have access to 4000 series Ryzens. On top of that Nvidia and AMD are going to be release new gpu architectures later this year so again I would wait on gpu's as well.

Never aim for 45fps, 60fps average is what you should aim for unless you've got 120Hz + monitor then it's that amount of fps.

AMD's i5 rival is the 2600/X or the 3600/X, this should be you goal.

If you're into gaming and not much of streaming or editing you should look out for i5 9600K or 9600KF.

As for the GPU, GTX2060 might be okay, but I would get 2070 or 2060 Super.

Ryzen 4K series needs a new mobo I believe. It's gonna be a bigger upgrade, but also one that costs more.

Personally I would wait for 4K series to arrive. The 3K series have been out for a while.

Supposedly, Ryzen 4000 series won't be reveal until Computex 2020 starts which was supposed to be in June but got push back to September 28-30 2020 for obvious reason. AMD has plans to launch them around July but I don't know if AMD will have their own Events if they want to skip Computex 2020.

I've heard 4th series will work in b450's. I bet some mobo companies will support it in some x370's models.

TC has X570 motherboard, hence this is not an issue.

Thought they did a bigger update now, you know like Intel does every other gen. Excellent if they don't.

That's RX 570 gpu not motherboard......

Honestly, the RX 5700 XT is the same price as the RTX 2060 Super, and performs as well as the 2070 Super. Don't go for RTX unless you can afford at LEAST a 2080.

I greatly appreciate all the great advice, thank you all!

After agonizing about it for a while I decided to go with the Rizen 5 3600 and a GTX 2060. I know I could go higher on the graphics card, but I think that the 2060 will give me more than enough graphical capabilities for 2K next gen at 30+ FPS, medium-low settings or higher.

I'm rocking a 1060 6gb I get at least 60fps on high-ultra (I never set everything to ultra though) at 1080p even with new games.

Even with some games from a few years ago/ remasters 4k at 60hz works fine at high-ultra.

You will be fine I'm on a i5 4690k with a MSI RTX 2060 and play at 1440p.

Not bad. Plenty of cores if you want to do some productivity stuff. Dev work, hosting a VM, streaming, etc...

Your GPU will be the bottleneck in graphics-intensive games. If you look up benchmarks on YouTube for that GPU and similar CPU you will pretty much see what you can expect at a given resolution and settings config.

Depending on your needs you could def go for a slightly lower-spec CPU as others have said.