If you're after more bang for your buck, I'd recommend the offerings of AMD. They've been making considerable waves lately with their Ryzen CPUs, which have been showing to be fair competition against Intel's lineup.
My laptop has the mobile Ryzen 7 2700u CPU, and now that it's memory is up to 16GB, Cities Skylines runs considerably smoother even with a city with a population of over 110,000 cims. It's not fast enough that running at 2x or 3x speed is any faster, but at least it doesn't crawl at even 1x speed.
You should be able to snag something even better without spending a whole lot for a desktop unit.
My laptop has the mobile Ryzen 7 2700u CPU, and now that it's memory is up to 16GB, Cities Skylines runs considerably smoother even with a city with a population of over 110,000 cims. It's not fast enough that running at 2x or 3x speed is any faster, but at least it doesn't crawl at even 1x speed.
You should be able to snag something even better without spending a whole lot for a desktop unit.