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by rany_ 1127 days ago
If anyone is interested, Intel has its own Linux distribution called Clear Linux which has all optimizations enabled. Of course this has the issue of not running on systems which cannot support all these optimizations, in particular, very few chips have AVX512 unless you have the latest 11th and 12th gen Intel CPUs.
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Wasn’t avx-512 disabled rather shortly after alderlakes release?
> very few chips have AVX512 unless you have the latest 11th and 12th gen Intel CPUs

12th gen had AVX-512 physically fused off because the E-cores didn't support it.

No. AVX512 was disabled because the money-men want to force you to buy the far more expensive Sapphire-Rapids which are the same chip. Same old Intel. Learned nothing. They didn't just fuse it off, they also forced microcode updates that permanently disable it for working alderlakes.
It's almost as if people make these throwaway accounts just to post hot takes without affecting their real karma value.