Ever since the advent of the Multi-Media eXtensions, better known as "MMX," Intel has had a long history of tacking on instruction set extensions to add additional capabilities to its x86-family of ...

Intel debuted AVX-512 instructions in its mainstream Core lineup with the 11th Gen Rocket Lake processors. Later with 12th Gen (Alder Lake) and newer chips (13th Gen Raptor Lake) though, Intel adopted ...

Intel has decided to fuse off AVX-512 on Alder Lake products. A Chipzilla spokesperson told Toms Hardware that although AVX-512 was not fuse-disabled on certain early Alder Lake desktop products, ...

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In brief: Intel 12th Gen Core desktop processors never officially supported AVX-512, but we have workarounds to enable this instruction set. However, new firmware releases might render these methods ...

by Zak Killian — Saturday, January 01, 2022, 11:17 AM EDT The saga of AVX-512 on Alder Lake has been an interesting one. Originally, folks reasonably assumed that the 12th-Gen Core processors would ...

AVX-512 instructions can significantly boost performance in multiple workloads, but the way these instructions were implemented in CPUs caused a significant frequency drop and increase in power ...

Toms’ Hardware has been looking under the bonnet of AMD's Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000-series processors and discovered that they handle AVX-512 instructions with minimal speed reduction and power increase, ...