Yes I was planning on AM5 platform and 32gb of ram. Going 7900xt will send me a little over budget. I was going 7600x or 7700x, because when I swap my 7900x, put that in his systemThen you can't really go wrong at the price/performance with the 7900xtx, team it with a 7800x3d, 32gb of ddr5 and you'll have a system that will last a very long time.
It would only be ray tracing that would fall behind the 4080 but tbh it's never been something that has bothered me. The drop in FPS is not worth the miniscule difference in image quality (at least to me)