to be fair, the only cpu that is going to matter is an x3d when it comes to gaming. Budgets might play a role if the nvidia and amd's are just "cheap" and can play games. but the x3d would wipe the floor in current gen games. theyre all single threaded "developer code", with multi threaded rendering and systems. except the games with their own engines, those are multi threaded for the big games. However Unreal and Unity are working on multi threaded developer-code. So in about 2-3 years you might be able to run every high end games on toasters with 4-8 cores. thats when the gpu is going to matter more again. since everything just uses upscaling at the beginning of 2026. Upscaling and Frame Gen.