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Just my subjective experience/opinion:
For Fusion standalone you probably won't see a huge increase in speed compared to other GPUs. At least right now.
I've used Fusion on machines with GTX680M, GTX780, GTX980, GTX 1080 and I am using the RTX 2060 super right now. An increase in render speed was not really noticable. Factors like RAM and VRAM are in my opinion more important.
Of course the higher the VRAM the better.
At this point in time the bottlenecks seem to be VRAM and actually getting all information to the GPU and back. Maybe the faster memory in the 3000 series could potentially have an bigger impact on this than the actual calculation power.
This could of course change as Blackmagic has made more and more tools use the GPU. Maybe in future releases the whole node branch can run on the GPU and profit more from better GPU specs.
And who knows maybe they'll add machine learning or AI stuff that can maybe utilize the more specialized cores, although I doubt it as they seem to prioritize Mac or at least try to be hardware agnostic.
Difficult to speculate as we know very little about Blackmagics plans with Fusion.
So my consensus right now would be to prioritize VRAM over raw power which make the 3000 series a good choice but for me (RTX 2000) no reason to upgrade right now (at least for Fusion, other applications I'm using would profit more)