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I've heard that heavy sustained AVX3 / AVX-512 workloads have the potential to damage CPU's [0][1]. Would running/testing/playing around this software potential
by rckoepke 6y ago
I've heard that heavy sustained AVX3 / AVX-512 workloads have the potential to damage CPU's [0][1]. Would running/testing/playing around this software potentially risk damaging my CPU? Or is this only a risk when overclocking?
I'm not being facetious with this question at all - more genuine curiosity / responsible preventative caution for my own machines, because I'm very much interested in playing around with this if it's reasonable to do so.
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382946 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382946
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14426798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14426798
- 37ef_ced3 6y agoThe reality is that AMD's CPUs don't yet properly support AVX-512, and Intel's CPUs provide good implementations (e.g., 3 cycle latency for the useful AVX-512 shuffle/permutes) with a big downclocking caveat AVX-512 will be great, eventually