The real benefit of AVX-512 is not even "512" part, even when used with 256 bit width registers the ability to use masking and orthogonality makes life so much

The real benefit of AVX-512 is not even "512" part, even when used with 256 bit width registers the ability to use masking and orthogonality makes life so much easier for the compiler writers and those who deploy intrinsics manually.