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AVX-512 one major problem and a bunch of minor ones. The major problem is that most computers still don't have it. Intel tried to segment their lineup and only put AVX-512 in their high end server CPUs for the first 2 generations that had it, but as a result normal programmers didn't have access to it, compiler devs didn't have access to it, and users didn't have access to it. As a result, most compilers don't do a good job generating AVX-512 code, and most programmers think AVX-512 isn't useful.

AVX-512 is great. The new instructions are incredibly useful for a wide variety of applications, but the fragmentation and segmentation by Intel has made it a total mess.



Eh, intel, reminds me how they arbitrarily fused virtualization on like half of desktop CPUs.

But hey this time it literally gave AMD time to catch up...


Hopefully it's available in AMD CPUs from now on. I already got it with 7950X and I am looking forward to trying it out!




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