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47-502: Besides widening most 256-bit instructions, the extensions introduce various new operations, such as new data conversions, scatter operations, and permutations. The number of AVX registers is increased from 16 to 32, and eight new "mask registers" are added, which allow for variable selection and blending of the results of instructions. In CPUs with the vector length (VL) extension—included in most AVX-512-capable processors (see § CPUs with AVX-512 )—these instructions may also be used on

94-528: A C implementation is The sparse scatter, denoted y | x ← x {\displaystyle y|_{x}\leftarrow x} is the reverse operation. It copies the values of x {\displaystyle x} into the corresponding locations in the sparsely populated vector y {\displaystyle y} , i.e. y ( i d x ( i ) ) = x ( i ) {\displaystyle y(idx(i))=x(i)} . Scatter/gather units were also

141-537: A new mini extension of instructions operating directly on them. Unlike the rest of the AVX-512 instructions, these instructions are all VEX encoded. The initial opmask instructions are all 16-bit (Word) versions. With AVX-512DQ 8-bit (Byte) versions were added to better match the needs of masking 8 64-bit values, and with AVX-512BW 32-bit (Double) and 64-bit (Quad) versions were added so they can mask up to 64 8-bit values. The instructions KORTEST and KTEST can be used to set

188-509: A part of most vector computers, notably the Cray-1 . In this case, the purpose was to efficiently store values in the limited resource of the vector registers. For instance, the Cray-1 had eight 64-word vector registers, so data that contained values that had no effect on the outcome, like zeros in an addition, were using up valuable space that would be better used. By gathering non-zero values into

235-478: A regular opmask. The compress and expand instructions match the APL operations of the same name. They use the opmask in a slightly different way from other AVX-512 instructions. Compress only saves the values marked in the mask, but saves them compacted by skipping and not reserving space for unmarked values. Expand operates in the opposite way, by loading as many values as indicated in the mask and then spreading them to

282-460: A relative error of 2. The instructions in AVX-512 conflict detection (AVX-512CD) are designed to help efficiently calculate conflict-free subsets of elements in loops that normally could not be safely vectorized. AVX-512 exponential and reciprocal (AVX-512ER) instructions contain more accurate approximate reciprocal instructions than those in the AVX-512 foundation; relative error is at most 2. They also contain two new exponential functions that have

329-620: A relative error of at most 2. AVX-512 prefetch (AVX-512PF) instructions contain new prefetch operations for the new scatter and gather functionality introduced in AVX2 and AVX-512. T0 prefetch means prefetching into level 1 cache and T1 means prefetching into level 2 cache. The two sets of instructions perform multiple iterations of processing. They are generally only found in Xeon Phi products. AVX-512DQ adds new doubleword and quadword instructions. AVX-512BW adds byte and words versions of

376-448: A single CPU instruction. The parallel operation packs noticeable increases in performance. SSE4.2 introduced new SIMD string operations, including an instruction to compare two string fragments of up to 16 bytes each. SSE4.2 is a subset of SSE4 and it was released a few years after the initial release of SSE4. Intel SSE4 consists of 54 instructions. A subset consisting of 47 instructions, referred to as SSE4.1 in some Intel documentation,

423-601: A single source, and subtract from that the integer part of the source value plus a number of bits specified in the immediate field of its fraction. Extend VPCOMPRESS and VPEXPAND with byte and word variants. Shift instructions are new. Vector Neural Network Instructions: AVX512-VNNI adds EVEX -coded instructions described below. With AVX-512F, these instructions can operate on 512-bit vectors, and AVX-512VL further adds support for 128- and 256-bit vectors. A later AVX-VNNI extension adds VEX encodings of these instructions which can only operate on 128- or 256-bit vectors. AVX-VNNI

470-669: Is a SIMD CPU instruction set used in the Intel Core microarchitecture and AMD K10 (K8L) . It was announced on September 27, 2006, at the Fall 2006 Intel Developer Forum , with vague details in a white paper ; more precise details of 47 instructions became available at the Spring 2007 Intel Developer Forum in Beijing , in the presentation. SSE4 extended the SSE3 instruction set which

517-704: Is a type of memory addressing that at once collects (gathers) from, or stores (scatters) data to, multiple, arbitrary indices. Examples of its use include sparse linear algebra operations, sorting algorithms, fast Fourier transforms , and some computational graph theory problems. It is the vector equivalent of register indirect addressing , with gather involving indexed reads, and scatter, indexed writes. Vector processors (and some SIMD units in CPUs ) have hardware support for gather and scatter operations, as do many input/output systems, allowing large data sets to be transferred to main memory more rapidly. The concept

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564-560: Is an integral part of the EVEX encoding, these instructions may also be considered basic move instructions. Using the zeroing blend mode, they can also be used as masking instructions. AVX-512F has four new compare instructions. Like their XOP counterparts they use the immediate field to select between 8 different comparisons. Unlike their XOP inspiration, however, they save the result to a mask register and initially only support doubleword and quadword comparisons. The AVX-512BW extension provides

611-815: Is available in Penryn . Additionally, SSE4.2 , a second subset consisting of the seven remaining instructions, is first available in Nehalem -based Core i7 . Intel credits feedback from developers as playing an important role in the development of the instruction set. Starting with Barcelona -based processors, AMD introduced the SSE4a instruction set, which has four SSE4 instructions and four new SSE instructions. These instructions are not found in Intel's processors supporting SSE4.1 and AMD processors only started supporting Intel's SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 (the full SSE4 instruction set) in

658-742: Is not part of the AVX-512 suite, it does not require AVX-512F and can be implemented independently. Integer fused multiply-add instructions. AVX512-IFMA adds EVEX -coded instructions described below. A separate AVX-IFMA instruction set extension defines VEX encoding of these instructions. This extension is not part of the AVX-512 suite and can be implemented independently. Galois field new instructions are useful for cryptography, as they can be used to implement Rijndael-style S-boxes such as those used in AES, Camellia , and SM4 . These instructions may also be used for bit manipulation in networking and signal processing. Gather-scatter Gather/scatter

705-514: Is now known as SSSE3 (Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3), introduced in the Intel Core 2 processor line, was referred to as SSE4 by some media until Intel came up with the SSSE3 moniker. Internally dubbed Merom New Instructions, Intel originally did not plan to assign a special name to them, which was criticized by some journalists. Intel eventually cleared up the confusion and reserved

752-420: Is reserved for indicating no opmask register is used, i.e. a hardcoded constant (instead of 'k0') is used to indicate unmasked operations. The special opmask register 'k0' is still a functioning, valid register, it can be used in opmask register manipulation instructions or used as the destination opmask register. A flag controls the opmask behavior, which can either be "zero", which zeros everything not selected by

799-696: Is somewhat similar to vectored I/O , which is sometimes also referred to as scatter-gather I/O. This system differs in that it is used to map multiple sources of data from contiguous structures into a single stream for reading or writing. A common example is writing out a series of strings , which in most programming languages would be stored in separate memory locations. A sparsely populated vector y {\displaystyle y} holding N {\displaystyle N} non-empty elements can be represented by two densely populated vectors of length N {\displaystyle N} ; x {\displaystyle x} containing

846-804: The AVX2 instruction set can gather 32-bit and 64-bit elements with memory offsets from a base address. A second register determines whether the particular element is loaded, and faults occurring from invalid memory accesses by masked-out elements are suppressed. The AVX-512 instruction set also contains (potentially masked) scatter operations. The ARM instruction set's Scalable Vector Extension includes gather and scatter operations on 8-, 16-, 32- and 64-bit elements. InfiniBand has hardware support for gather/scatter. Without instruction-level gather/scatter, efficient implementations may need to be tuned for optimal performance, for example with prefetching ; libraries such as OpenMPI may provide such primitives. SSE4 SSE4 ( Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 )

893-523: The Bulldozer -based FX processors. With SSE4a the misaligned SSE feature was also introduced which meant unaligned load instructions were as fast as aligned versions on aligned addresses. It also allowed disabling the alignment check on non-load SSE operations accessing memory. Intel later introduced similar speed improvements to unaligned SSE in their Nehalem processors, but did not introduce misaligned access by non-load SSE instructions until AVX . What

940-799: The Nehalem -based Intel Core i7 product line, and complete the SSE4 instruction set. AMD on the other hand first added support starting with the Bulldozer microarchitecture . Support is indicated via the CPUID.01H:ECX.SSE42[Bit 20] flag. Windows 11 24H2 requires the CPU to support SSE4.2, otherwise the Windows kernel is unbootable. (Various unofficial Windows 11 variants, such as Tiny11 and Parallels virtualizations installations, bypass this requirement.) These instructions operate on integer rather than SSE registers, because they are not SIMD instructions, but appear at

987-614: The 128-bit and 256-bit vector sizes. AVX-512 is not the first 512-bit SIMD instruction set that Intel has introduced in processors: the earlier 512-bit SIMD instructions used in the first generation Xeon Phi coprocessors, derived from Intel's Larrabee project, are similar but not binary compatible and only partially source compatible. The successor to AVX-512 is AVX10 , announced July 2023, which will work on both performance and efficiency cores. The AVX-512 instruction set consists of several separate sets each having their own unique CPUID feature bit. However, they are typically grouped by

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1034-405: The 16 additional registers XMM16-XMM31 and YMM16-YMM31 when using EVEX encoded form. AVX-512 vector instructions may indicate an opmask register to control which values are written to the destination, the instruction encoding supports 0–7 for this field, however, only opmask registers k1–k7 (of k0–k7) can be used as the mask corresponding to the value 1–7, whereas the value 0

1081-419: The 16 elements in a 512-bit register. For double float and quad words, at most 8 mask bits are used. The opmask register is the reason why several bitwise instructions which naturally have no element widths had them added in AVX-512. For instance, bitwise AND, OR or 128-bit shuffle now exist in both double-word and quad-word variants with the only difference being in the final masking. The opmask registers have

1128-399: The 1990s, commodity CPUs began to add vector processing units. At first these tended to be simple, sometimes overlaying the CPU's general purpose registers, but over time these evolved into increasingly powerful systems that met and then surpassed the units in high-end supercomputers. By this time, scatter/gather instructions had been added to many of these designs. x86-64 CPUs which support

1175-468: The SSE4 name for their next instruction set extension. Intel is using the marketing term HD Boost to refer to SSE4. Unlike all previous iterations of SSE, SSE4 contains instructions that execute operations which are not specific to multimedia applications. It features a number of instructions whose action is determined by a constant field and a set of instructions that take XMM0 as an implicit third operand. Several of these instructions are enabled by

1222-454: The bits masked by SRC are set. SSE4.2 added STTNI (String and Text New Instructions), several new instructions that perform character searches and comparison on two operands of 16 bytes at a time. These were designed (among other things) to speed up the parsing of XML documents. It also added a CRC32 instruction to compute cyclic redundancy checks as used in certain data transfer protocols. These instructions were first implemented in

1269-441: The byte and word versions. Note that two mask registers may be specified for the instructions, one to write to and one to declare regular masking. The final way to set masks is using Logical Set Mask. These instructions perform either AND or NAND, and then set the destination opmask based on the result values being zero or non-zero. Note that like the comparison instructions, these take two opmask registers, one as destination and one

1316-484: The extensions from AVX-512VL and AVX-512BW since those extensions merely add new versions of these instructions instead of new instructions. There are no EVEX-prefixed versions of the blend instructions from SSE4 ; instead, AVX-512 has a new set of blending instructions using mask registers as selectors. Together with the general compare into mask instructions below, these may be used to implement generic ternary operations or cmov, similar to XOP 's VPCMOV. Since blending

1363-480: The features Intel wanted to add to AVX-512. This has led them to define a new prefix called EVEX . Compared to VEX, EVEX adds the following benefits: The extended registers, SIMD width bit, and opmask registers of AVX-512 are mandatory and all require support from the OS. The AVX-512 instructions are designed to mix with 128/256-bit AVX/AVX2 instructions without a performance penalty. However, AVX-512VL extensions allows

1410-439: The floating-point value is one of eight special floating-point values, which of the eight values will trigger a bit in the output mask register is controlled by the immediate field. The VRANGE instructions perform minimum or maximum operations depending on the value of the immediate field, which can also control if the operation is done absolute or not and separately how the sign is handled. The VREDUCE instructions operate on

1457-478: The instructions. Two new instructions added can logically implement all possible bitwise operations between three inputs. They take three registers as input and an 8-bit immediate field. Each bit in the output is generated using a lookup of the three corresponding bits in the inputs to select one of the 8 positions in the 8-bit immediate. Since only 8 combinations are possible using three bits, this allow all possible 3 input bitwise operations to be performed. These are

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1504-463: The mask, or "merge", which leaves everything not selected untouched. The merge behavior is identical to the blend instructions. The opmask registers are normally 16 bits wide, but can be up to 64 bits with the AVX-512BW extension. How many of the bits are actually used, though, depends on the vector type of the instructions masked. For the 32-bit single float or double words, 16 bits are used to mask

1551-781: The non-empty elements of y {\displaystyle y} , and i d x {\displaystyle idx} giving the index in y {\displaystyle y} where x {\displaystyle x} 's element is located. The gather of y {\displaystyle y} into x {\displaystyle x} , denoted x ← y | x {\displaystyle x\leftarrow y|_{x}} , assigns x ( i ) = y ( i d x ( i ) ) {\displaystyle x(i)=y(idx(i))} with i d x {\displaystyle idx} having already been calculated. Assuming no pointer aliasing between x[], y[],idx[],

1598-514: The only bitwise vector instructions in AVX-512F; EVEX versions of the two source SSE and AVX bitwise vector instructions AND, ANDN, OR and XOR were added in AVX-512DQ. The difference in the doubleword and quadword versions is only the application of the opmask. A number of conversion or move instructions were added; these complete the set of conversion instructions available from SSE2. Among

1645-773: The processor generation that implements them. F, CD, ER, PF:   introduced with Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) and Xeon Gold/Platinum ( Skylake SP "Purley"), with the last two (ER and PF) being specific to Knights Landing. VL, DQ, BW:   introduced with Skylake X and Cannon Lake . IFMA, VBMI:   introduced with Cannon Lake . 4VNNIW, 4FMAPS:   introduced with Knights Mill . VPOPCNTDQ:   Vector population count instruction. Introduced with Knights Mill and Ice Lake . VNNI, VBMI2, BITALG:   introduced with Ice Lake. VP2INTERSECT:   introduced with Tiger Lake. GFNI, VPCLMULQDQ, VAES:   introduced with Ice Lake. The VEX prefix used by AVX and AVX2, while flexible, did not leave enough room for

1692-434: The registers, and scattering the results back out, the registers could be used much more efficiently, leading to higher performance. Such machines generally implemented two access models, scatter/gather and "stride", the latter designed to quickly load contiguous data. This basic layout was widely copied in later supercomputer designs, especially on the variety of models from Japan. As microprocessor design improved during

1739-465: The same encoding path as the encoding of the BSR (bit scan reverse) instruction. This results in an issue where LZCNT called on some CPUs not supporting it, such as Intel CPUs prior to Haswell, may incorrectly execute the BSR operation instead of raising an invalid instruction exception. This is an issue as the result values of LZCNT and BSR are different. Trailing zeros can be counted using

1786-625: The same instructions, and adds byte and word version of doubleword/quadword instructions in AVX-512F. A few instructions which get only word forms with AVX-512BW acquire byte forms with the AVX-512_VBMI extension ( VPERMB , VPERMI2B , VPERMT2B , VPMULTISHIFTQB ). Two new instructions were added to the mask instructions set: KADD and KTEST (B and W forms with AVX-512DQ, D and Q with AVX-512BW). The rest of mask instructions, which had only word forms, got byte forms with AVX-512DQ and doubleword/quadword forms with AVX-512BW. KUNPCKBW

1833-652: The same time and although introduced by AMD with the SSE4a instruction set, they are counted as separate extensions with their own dedicated CPUID bits to indicate support. Intel implements POPCNT beginning with the Nehalem microarchitecture and LZCNT beginning with the Haswell microarchitecture. AMD implements both, beginning with the Barcelona microarchitecture . AMD calls this pair of instructions Advanced Bit Manipulation (ABM) . The encoding of LZCNT takes

1880-404: The selected positions. A new set of permute instructions have been added for full two input permutations. They all take three arguments, two source registers and one index; the result is output by either overwriting the first source register or the index register. AVX-512BW extends the instructions to also include 16-bit (word) versions, and the AVX-512_VBMI extension defines the byte versions of

1927-453: The single-cycle shuffle engine in Penryn. (Shuffle operations reorder bytes within a register.) These instructions were introduced with Penryn microarchitecture , the 45 nm shrink of Intel's Core microarchitecture . Support is indicated via the CPUID.01H:ECX.SSE41[Bit 19] flag. This is equivalent to setting the Z flag if none of the bits masked by SRC are set, and the C flag if all of

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1974-598: The source code. Since AVX-512F only works on 32- and 64-bit values, SSE and AVX/AVX2 instructions that operate on bytes or words are available only with the AVX-512BW extension (byte & word support). The width of the SIMD register file is increased from 256 bits to 512 bits, and expanded from 16 to a total of 32 registers ZMM0–ZMM31. These registers can be addressed as 256 bit YMM registers from AVX extensions and 128-bit XMM registers from Streaming SIMD Extensions , and legacy AVX and SSE instructions can be extended to operate on

2021-430: The unique new features in AVX-512F are instructions to decompose floating-point values and handle special floating-point values . Since these methods are completely new, they also exist in scalar versions. This is the second set of new floating-point methods, which includes new scaling and approximate calculation of reciprocal, and reciprocal of square root. The approximate reciprocal instructions guarantee to have at most

2068-421: The use of AVX-512 instructions on 128/256-bit registers XMM/YMM, so most SSE and AVX/AVX2 instructions have new AVX-512 versions encoded with the EVEX prefix which allow access to new features such as opmask and additional registers. Unlike AVX-256, the new instructions do not have new mnemonics but share namespace with AVX, making the distinction between VEX and EVEX encoded versions of an instruction ambiguous in

2115-434: The x86 flags based on mask registers, so that they may be used together with non-SIMD x86 branch and conditional instructions. Many AVX-512 instructions are simply EVEX versions of old SSE or AVX instructions. There are, however, several new instructions, and old instructions that have been replaced with new AVX-512 versions. The new or heavily reworked instructions are listed below. These foundation instructions also include

2162-524: Was extended to KUNPCKWD and KUNPCKDQ by AVX-512BW. Among the instructions added by AVX-512DQ are several SSE and AVX instructions that didn't get AVX-512 versions with AVX-512F, among those are all the two input bitwise instructions and extract/insert integer instructions. Instructions that are completely new are covered below. Three new floating-point operations are introduced. Since they are not only new to AVX-512 they have both packed/SIMD and scalar versions. The VFPCLASS instructions tests if

2209-764: Was released in early 2004. All software using previous Intel SIMD instructions (ex. SSE3) are compatible with modern microprocessors supporting SSE4 instructions. All existing software continues to run correctly without modification on microprocessors that incorporate SSE4, as well as in the presence of existing and new applications that incorporate SSE4. Like other previous generation CPU SIMD instruction sets, SSE4 supports up to 16 registers, each 128-bits wide which can load four 32-bit integers, four 32-bit single precision floating point numbers, or two 64-bit double precision floating point numbers. SIMD operations, such as vector element-wise addition/multiplication and vector scalar addition/multiplication, process multiple bytes of data in

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