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  1. 05-01-2009, 11:28 PM #8
    Shintai
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    Its SSE5 thats AMDs own invention. In short its another 3DNow!, SSE4A. Good luck!

    AVX and SSE5 is fully incompatible so to say.

    Nothing new really, nothing surprising.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions
    http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/i...e-31943302.pdf
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE5

    SSE5 is more a SSE4 competitor than AVX.
    Last edited by Shintai; 05-01-2009 at 11:37 PM.
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