[News] Intel "Cannon Lake" Confirmed to Feature AVX-512 Instruction-Set

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/244274/i...nstruction-set

Intel updated the ARK information page for its stealthily launched 10 nm production chip, the Core i3-8121U "Cannon Lake," to confirm that the chip supports the new AVX-512 instruction-set. This is the first "mainstream" client-segment processor by the company to feature the extremely advanced instruction-set that, if implemented properly on the software side, can double performance/Watt compared to tasks that can take advantage of AVX2.

The instruction-set made its debut with the Xeon Phi "Knights Landing" HPC processor, and made its client-segment debut with the Core X "Skylake X" HEDT processors. It remains to be seen if the implementation of AVX-512 on "Cannon Lake" is complete, or if some instructions found on HPC processors such as the Xeon Phi are omitted due to irrelevance to the client platform.

[TuKo]

NIMIQ miners will love that :-)

[AliG]

This could be the big one thing that sways customers away from Zen 2. Zen+ was a better than expected improvement, but the AVX performance is still lacking. Bringing 512 down to the mainstream CPUs could sway sales of anyone that does audio/video or large scale modelling work.