Intel Cannon Lake has AVX-512 support

Posted on Thursday, May 17 2018 @ 12:42 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

It's not really a surprise as we already wrote about this over half a year ago but the ARK entry of Intel's Core i3-8121U confirms this chip supports AVX-512. The 8121U is the first 10nm Cannon Lake processor from Intel, it's currently shipping in China in a low-end laptop from Lenovo.

As TechPowerUp points out, AVX-512 can offer double the performance/Watt versus AVX2.

At the moment, the practical implications for consumers are pretty low as there's no software that takes advantages of this feature. So far, the only chips that support this are server chips and Skylake-X HEDT series.

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