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by jsheard 3402 days ago
It doesn't handle 256-bit floats, in this context 256-bit means it can operate on eight 32-bit floats or four 64-bit floats at the same time.
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Ah, that's what I thought, I was so surprised when i thought you said they had a 256 bit fpu XD

I'm dumb.

It's interesting that power consumption increases with avx instructions. Do you happen to have a link?