Are there any compatibility issues with AMD chips?

Sorry for the boring question, but I'm looking at getting a new laptop and saw one I really like that has an AMD a8 processor. I'm more into the graphics boost of Amd chips than the cpu boost of intel chips, and I'm on too tight a budget it seems to afford a laptop with an intel cpu and discrete gpu.

My one concern though is that there might be some compatibility issues or something with the amd cpu, especially on older games which I play a lot. Dosbox stuff, 90s games, things like that. Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks.

If there's a problem with games that old, it isn't because your hardware isn't powerful enough. It's because those games don't play well with new stuff.

Most of the time, if it's something worth playing then you can get it working with a bit of decent Google-fu and some perseverance.

@believer258 said:

If there's a problem with games that old, it isn't because your hardware isn't powerful enough. It's because those games don't play well with new stuff.

Most of the time, if it's something worth playing then you can get it working with a bit of decent Google-fu and some perseverance.

Thanks. I wasn't worried about the power (i play those games on an ancient dual-core with integrated graphics so far) but more about whether there would be some kind of architecture difference I didn't know about. I didn't find much info online but for some vague stuff about how old programs run slower on amd chips due to incompatibilities and it got me a bit worried.