AMD, Intel... What's better?

[AnyOldName3]

GTAV will also struggle on a lot of AMD chips, too. Intel's chips have fast enough single threaded performance compared to similarly-priced AMD chips to overcome the overhead of context switching between two software threads on one hardware thread. However, you do have a point in that some games, such as Far Cry 4, outright won't work unless they detect a thread count of 4 or more, which is totally stupid, as there'll definitely be a fast enough dual core chip to run it at some point in the future, even if it's years away.