Zen 1 already implements AVX2 properly. It doesn't have 256 bit wide units, so it's 2 clock cycles instead of 1… but that's actually good. Intel's 256 bit unit

Zen 1 already implements AVX2 properly. It doesn't have 256 bit wide units, so it's 2 clock cycles instead of 1… but that's actually good. Intel's 256 bit units cause horrible downclocking issues: https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequency-scaling/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-dangers-of-intels-frequen... What even is "SSE speeds"?!