No you haven't missed something preacher because I noticed the same thing a few weeks ago. I had my tower in storage for the last two years and have been just using my lap top until GTA V came out. Then I decided to dig out my tower and install GTA V on it because I needed the horse power, my laptop wouldn't run it at all. The tower specs are a I5 2500k (sandy bridge), 6950 vid card, and 8 gigs of ram. I can run GTA V @1080p, I don't have all of the settings maxed but it looks fine to me and runs just as well. It also pushes it out to a BenQ XL2420G monitor with out any problems.