[SOLVED] Time for a massive upgrade - freelancer/gamer combo

[Looneytoon_1975]

So,

I'll start with the career description. I am a University teacher at a School of Arts in Belgium. My main activity consits in teaching students everything Motion Design related, ranging from Cinema 4D, Adobe CC - and looking into Blender and Unreal for the near future.
Since our school is heavy Mac-biased (network, support, printing service, server-related), i'm all covered with a decked out 2021 M1 MBP.

Aside this assignment, which covers about 4/5th of my income - I'm still very active as a freelancer. My toolkit exists of the full Adobe CC and Maxon array - Cinema 4D and After Effects mostly. Blender, Unreal engine and ZBrush will play a major part in extending my parttime freelance business. But... equally important - my hobby is simulation (aside darts and mountainbiking) . I spend a lot of time in VR (HP-reverb G2) on titles as iRacing, MFS2020, DCS World,... I haven't found the sweet spot yet.

So I'm looking towards best of both worlds.

My current system is:

X570 Gigabyte Aorus Elite
AMD Ryzen 9 5950x
Noctua D15 cooler
64Gb DDR 4 3600 Mhz
RTX 3090

I already ordered a RTX 4090 - it's a no brainer for Redshift rendering in C4D

I did a lot of research, which raised following questions: Team red or team blue? Money is an issue...

If Team Red: 7950x3D? Or wait for 7800x3D?
If Team Blue, only one option... 19300k - which is very power hungry.
I want to avoid investing in a new PSU, mine is Corsair hx1000i
Cooler will be a corsair h150i
The 13900k is compatible with a mobo that supports DDR4 (have 64Gb now), cutting the price, but may be not future proof? So I need a new Mobo anyhow...

So many choices...

I wan't to stay under 2K for the upgrade (4090 excluded)
Any thoughts appreciated - I'll do the build myself ;-)

Thanks for the advice!

 

[helper800]

I'm actually curious what the upcoming 7800x3d will deliver, and at what pricepoint.
I think the wait could be worth while... like begin April if I'm correct?

Yes it could be worth the wait but at 8 cores 16 threads your production work may be lower performance than your current 5950x.

I'm not sure I would use the term blown out of the water for a 5-7 average fps difference especially when it's 130$ price point difference. Also if we were to stick at the 700$ price point, correct me if I'm wrong but from the few things I saw the 13900ks outperformed the 7950x3d in MFS and basically everything else?

Its not just 5-7 fps... Look at this, even the 5800X3D destroys the 13900ks.

As for the SSD's I'm not to sure about Belgium but here at least Amazon had the 2tb P41 for 150 if it's the same there I'd say that seems like a better deal for what's widely considered a better performing SSD.

Unfortunately I cannot find those SSDs in stock anywhere he can buy them in Europe for the same kind of discount.