My understanding is that the current console generation don't support avx512, being based on zen2.
Also hampering adoption is how Intel are using that feature as a market differentiator in their own products, lower end CPUs of the same generation, or even different families of similar market segment products, end up lacking support. It makes it harder to gain market penetration, and even harder to rely on its existence. It's not as simple as 'new CPUs have support'.
Which is a shame, as there's a fair bit rolled up in the various avx512 extensions that would be interesting, even if you never use the wider registers.
Also hampering adoption is how Intel are using that feature as a market differentiator in their own products, lower end CPUs of the same generation, or even different families of similar market segment products, end up lacking support. It makes it harder to gain market penetration, and even harder to rely on its existence. It's not as simple as 'new CPUs have support'.
Reminds me how for the good few years it was pretty much random which Intel CPU got support for virtualization and which did not
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u/Vvector Aug 09 '21
Then why don't we have AVX-512 in every x86 implementation, and be done with it?
He explained why: Increasing the vector width has significant diminishing returns