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Here come a pair of leaks/rumors that could affect your purchase decisions, even yours, Norion:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 SUPER/Ti could feature 4864 CUDA cores
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-super-ti-could-feature-4864-cuda-cores
Today Kopite7kimi, the leaker who correctly predicted RTX 30 specs weeks ahead of launch, has shared new data regarding GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/SUPER model. The graphics card would allegedly feature GA104-200 GPU with 4864 CUDA cores. That’s 1024 CUDA cores less than RTX 3070. The PG142 SKU20 would also be equipped with 8GB of GDDR6 non-X memory.

While that is interesting enough by itself to the mere mortals that roam this site for which the 3080 and 3090 are just out of reach, the following piece of the article could interest the rest of you:

The SUPER variants were not expected to debut this year, but as an Ampere Refresh in 2021 (possibly with higher-clocked GDDR6X memory). The Ti variants, on the other hand, are rumored to launch after Big Navi.

Maybe waiting would be worth it?

AMD 4th Gen Ryzen "Vermeer" Zen 3 Rumored to Include 10-core Parts
https://www.techpowerup.com/271885/amd-4th-gen-ryzen-vermeer-zen-3-rumored-to-include-10-core-parts
Yuri "1usmus" Bubliy, author of DRAM Calculator for Ryzen and the upcoming ClockTuner for Ryzen, revealed three pieces of juicy details on the upcoming 4th Gen AMD Ryzen "Vermeer" performance desktop processors. He predicts AMD turning up CPU core counts with this generation, including the introduction of new 10-core SKUs, possibly to one-up Intel in the multi-threaded performance front. Last we heard, AMD's upcoming "Zen 3" CCDs (chiplets) feature 8 CPU cores sharing a monolithic 32 MB slab of L3 cache. This should, in theory, allow AMD to create 10-core chips with two CCDs, each with 5 cores enabled.

I don't know how would AMD split its CCX to come up with that 10-core processor or even if they'll have to (if the rumors about each CCX doubling its core number from 8 to 16 are true), but their lineup would certainly benefit from it:

R5 4600 = 6-cores # R7 4700 = 8-cores # R7 4800 = 10-cores # R9 4900 = 12-cores # R7 4950 = 16-cores

Hell, they could even up the core count across the board and go with 8 => 10 => 12 => 14 => 16 cores, leaving the 4 and 6-core ones for the R3 series.