Applications
- Suitable for floating point-intensive calculations in multimedia, scientific and financial applications (integer operations are expected in later extensions).
- Increases parallelism and throughput in floating point SIMD calculations.
- Reduces register load due to the non-destructive instructions.
- Improves Linux RAID software performance
Prime95/MPrime, the software used for GIMPS, started using the AVX instructions since version 27.x.
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