StarTools

Is this only for AMD? Or is it SIMD for both Intel and AMD?

David

Hi David,

The AVX2 executable is meant for CPUs that incorporate AVX2 extension/instructions.
As of July 2020 these processors support AVX2;
Intel
Haswell processor (only Core branded), Q2 2013
Haswell E processor (only Core branded), Q3 2014
Broadwell processor (only Core branded), Q4 2014
Broadwell E processor (only Core branded), Q3 2016
Skylake processor (only Core branded), Q3 2015
Kaby Lake processor (only Core branded), Q3 2016(ULV mobile)/Q1 2017(desktop/mobile)
Skylake-X processor (only Core branded), Q2 2017
Coffee Lake processor (only Core branded), Q4 2017
Cannon Lake processor, Q2 2018
Cascade Lake processor, Q2 2019
Ice Lake processor, Q3 2019
Comet Lake processor (only Core branded), Q3 2019
Tiger Lake processor, 2020
AMD
Excavator processor and newer, Q2 2015
Zen processor, Q1 2017
Zen+ processor, Q2 2018
Zen 2 processor, Q3 2019
Zen 3 processor, 2020
VIA
Nano QuadCore
Eden X4
(source Wikipedia)

Note that from StarTools 1.7, any AVX2-accelerated processing will be replaced by GPU-accelerated processing.

Hope this helps!