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Intel has been trying to reduce the penalty for AVX-512, and barring that, advertise that there is no penalty. Most things on Ice Lake run fine with 256 bit vectors, but Skylake and earlier really needed 128 bit or narrower if you weren't doing serious vector math.

Forget about 512 bit vectors or FMAs.



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