New Delhi, July 2 -- If you're building a rig for 4K gaming in 2025, raw specs alone won't cut it. You need the right CPU and GPU pairing to avoid bottlenecks that waste performance and money. Your aim can be cinematic visuals at max settings or high-refresh 4K for competitive play. Irrespective of that,here are five CPU-GPU combos that actually make sense.

At 4K, your GPU does the heavy lifting, but skimp on the CPU, and you'll still run into stutters in open-world and CPU-heavy titles. The 2025 baseline? CPUs with large L3 cache (like AMD's 3D V-Cache), GPUs with 16 GB+ VRAM, and support for DLSS 4 or Frame Generation. Every combo below is built for real-world results, not just synthetic scores.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (16C/32T, 128 ...