Regarding your current PC, consider adding a slave hard drive (a small SSD would do nicely here) and using it as your System's scratch disk and designating the slave drive as the System's cache. If I were you, I would consider buying an updated iMac and upgrading your PC so that it can be used as a render device, offloading rendering to that while you get back to work with your shiny new iMac. If you want an iMac - new versions should be out soon I'm waiting for iMacs with the updated USB-C port interface. The Samsung 850 Pro is the best SATA-based SSD for OS drives - period, and we've tested a bunch of them. On our production Mac Minis - basically render farms - we use two 1TB 850 Pro SSDs (512GB drives would work fine here too.) in a RAID 0 configuration, and this set up pretty much blows our PCs out the back door (a metaphor here). We've also upgraded our Win boxes with Samsung 850 Pro SSDs - as OS drives they blow away any other SATA drive we've used. Version 19 specifies 8GB of RAM as minimum requirements, with 16GB recommended - we use 64GB on our Win boxes and at least 32GB on our Macs, the difference is vast/huge/big. Regarding your current configuration, you did not specify which version of ArchiCAD that you're using, or whether you're using any additional plug-ins. Regarding ArchiCAD 20, we're on a subscription so there's no "upgrade" charge - if you're on a single-purchase plan you'll likely be buying a whole new version of ArchiCAD when v. ArchiCAD 20 should be out in its final form soon, and Apple is hosting its WWDC in mid-June - any money you spend now on current hardware will not be wasted, but current Apple hardware will likely be discounted when the new hardware is announced.
The iMac is on-par for performance with any of the Windows boxes we also use. The iMac is a fantastic tool to use with ArchiCAD 19 and STAR(T) and BIM Server. I'm a longtime Mac/PC and ArchiCAD (and VectorWorks and AutoCAD) user. I'm guessing you're somewhat new to the Mac world.
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