It's intentional. Intel has a tradition to cripple features on consumer and enthusiast-grade CPUs in order to sell more Xeon CPUs. The way Intel crippled virtua

It's intentional. Intel has a tradition to cripple features on consumer and enthusiast-grade CPUs in order to sell more Xeon CPUs. The way Intel crippled virtualization/IOMMU in the past was also particularly annoying - on mainstream CPUs it was allowed, but on overclockable enthusiast CPUs, it was disabled. On the other hand, AMD doesn't do that.