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Here is a CPU from 2020 that does not support AVX nor AVX2 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/199288/intel-pentium-gold-g6400-processor-4m-cac
by Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4mo ago
Here is a CPU from 2020 that does not support AVX nor AVX2 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/199288/intel-pentium-gold-g6400-processor-4m-cache-4-00-ghz/specifications.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/199288/... very low budget and probably not common but this is why one might choose not to require AVX2
- kristianp 4mo agoWow, that's interesting, apparently 10th gen Pentiums and Celerons don't have avx. The wonders of product segmentation. They apparently corrected course (and also gave consumers AVX-512) in the 11th gen: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-latest-celeron-and-pentium-cpus-finally-get-avx2-avx-512-support?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-latest-celeron-and-... There's a related discussion on hn from 2020 about lack of AVX here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24577069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24577069