By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), August 15, 2011 3:08 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Robert David Graham (bigrobg@gmail.com) on 8/15/11 wrote:
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>>This is also a strong point of AVX2. It extends all integer
>>SIMD operations to 256-bit
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>Does it?
AVX (implemented in Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge) does not.
AVX2 (implemented in Haswell) does. At least according to early documentation.
See discussion here:
http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=120290&threadid=120290&roomid=2
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>>This is also a strong point of AVX2. It extends all integer
>>SIMD operations to 256-bit
>
>Does it?
AVX (implemented in Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge) does not.
AVX2 (implemented in Haswell) does. At least according to early documentation.
See discussion here:
http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=120290&threadid=120290&roomid=2