Guild Wars 2

Honestly anyone wanting to play guild wars 2 and just building or upgrading their computers I highly recommended to go for Intel
Before I was using
AMD fx-6350
GeForce 760
6GB RAM
M5A78L-M motherboard
And even tho it’s a fairly decent build on WvW on big battles my frames would drop to 14 and lower

With this in mind and everyone on the forum saying go Intel
I decided to get the X84-G45 MSI’s gaming motherboard aswell as an Intel I5 4690K my frames are incredibly good with rarely hitting less than 60 wherever in the game .. I know these two cpu’s are in a different league to each other but with AMD’s cores not always being used its evident that for this game you must go for a Intel over AMD

Much appreciated for everyone recommending this CPU to me

Well yes, it’s been said over and over again. The game has only a few high CPU% threads. As long as you have enough cores for those any extra are mainly superfluous. Then it comes down to individual core performance. Intel’s individual cores out performs by a wide margin AMD’s.

Another way to look at it is the FX-6350 performs relatively close (within 10%) in multithreading benchmarks that use all available cores to an i5-2500. But that’s 6 cores Vs 4 cores. So AMD’s cores are roughly 2/3rds the performance of a not HTed Intel’s core.

In your case the i5-4690K is roughly twice as fast per core. And since graphics performance isn’t a major the limiting factor in this game, CPU performance really does matter. It’s not AMD vs Intel in terms of software optimization, it’s simply Intel has the faster CPU in terms of general performance. Intel knows this and charges for it. All AMD can do is offer theirs at a lower price and points to the multithreaded benchmarks and talk about value.