[jsheard]

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.

[deepnotderp]

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?

[gcp]

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...