Ok, turns out I had misheard what you said as 3.6 Ghz rather than 3.4 Ghz. Now it all makes a lot more sense.
Yea, that released before AVX.
So, yea, the thing isn't a matter of power so much as the processor even understanding what it's being asked to process. This likely comes down more to the tools they used to develop the game (Engine, Compilers, language even) rather than the developers direct decisions. Most seem to wait many years before using new instruction sets.
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