Question Advice on choosing a new GPU ?

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CPU: i3-12100f
Mobo: MSI pro b660m a
Ram: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600
Storage: WD Blue SN570 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
PSU: SeaSonic FOCUS Plus 650 Gold 650

Current GPU: EVGA KO GAMING GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB

Pc used for gaming at 1080 on a 32” 144hz monitor.
Games include cyberpunk, starfield, prey, Skyrim, fo4, the long dark,
I notice when gaming the cpu is fine, very low percentage but the video card is almost always 99-100% usage.
I’d like to play games at high quality or more.

Budget is around $475Canadian or so.

Should I just get a 3060 or maybe the 7600?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
as your budget is a lil big and if you can wait and stretch out a little, this one might be great. I would also recommend the RTX 5060 16GB normal or OC, but the price is a big of a stretch, and the RX is just closer at this point and might even offer better perfomance per price, the OC version of the RX is also a kind of big stretch even, but not bigger than of the 5060 16GB OC.

The money and time is yours to decide. I'd go for the Sapphire Pulse, as the performance isn't bad and it's a rather large jump compared to your first choices.

SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 9060XT 16GB $489.99
 
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