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The rx560 is pretty long in the tooth at this point and was a budget card when it released about a decade ago. That build isn't far off from my wife's PC before I rebuilt it last year (4th Gen i5, 12GB of DDR3 and an RX560) and it was pretty well rounded in everything being a bottleneck. Like she played plenty of games at 720p on it, but it wasn't fantastic. Took a lot of settings tuning in every game to get things looking decent and performing well enough
It sounds like you're building a PC for a friend or relative, I would steer them towards either a used console or encourage building a system without a discrete GPU and encourage them to circle back in a few months to a year and see if they can scrape together the budget for an RX4/580 or a used 20/30 series Nvidia card. The fact is, at that price range a bit more money can net you a lot more performance, so waiting and saving a little more is going to be the better option if possible