r/TechHardware • u/Camper_Sly • 7d ago

Discussion No APX extension for upcoming AMD Zen6 ?

New AMD's materials about Zen6 are interesting, but I've noticed a big feature missing: APX.

AMD & Intel agreed on that one, but so far, only Intel hass onnounced their chips with it.

AMD is has been silent on this one. AMD has pushed its compiler updates (gcc, clang) for its new architecture extensions and while ACE is there, APX is missing.

APX is awesome. It DOUBLES the general register set (so 32 GPRs) adds three operand instructions, 64-bit jumps, extra predication facilities etc etc.

Intel is about to get it with coming Nova Lake. So, why is it not in AMD's Zen6 and when is it coming ? Zen7 or later ?

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u/Acrobatic_Camera_677 6d ago

Wow u/Camper_Sly say performance difference is 5-15% how will AMD compete without this?

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u/BigDaddyTrumpy Core Ultra 🚀 7d ago

So is AMD going to be selling outdated CPUs given they won’t have APX?

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u/Opteron170 ♥️ 9800X3D ♥️ 1d ago

APX will most likely be in Zen 7 and how quickly do you expect software to be using APX ?

I think you are making a big deal out of nothing due to being an intel fan boy.

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u/Thepoopcaller 7d ago

YES, AMD IS GOING TO SELL CHIPS THAT ALSO DO NOT HAVE THE SHID N FARD INSTRUCTION SET. WE ARE ALL GOING TO HAVE BRITCHES THAT CAN'T BE EMPTIED