I help people build PCs sometimes and peoples first pass at picking components almost always overspends on cpu and underspends on gpu. For any fixed budget you

I help people build PCs sometimes and peoples first pass at picking components almost always overspends on cpu and underspends on gpu. For any fixed budget you will usually get (much) better perf by getting the low-mid range ryzen 3/5 or i3/i5 cpus and spending the difference on a better graphics card. Most games are not particularly CPU intensive (although there are exceptions like Ashes of the Singularity which actually does usually get bottlenecked by the CPU unless you have a really high end one)