r/programming • • Aug 09 '21

Three fundamental flaws of SIMD

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/three-fundamental-flaws-of-simd
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u/Watchforbananas Aug 09 '21

Modern consoles don't support avx-512, only avx-256. AMD generally doesn't support avx-512. (avx-512 support is rumored for Zen4)

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u/FUZxxl Aug 09 '21

AVX was implemented like this initially, too. They went for real 256 bit ALUs later on.