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yvdriesstoday at 8:42 AM1 replyview on HN

And that's a shame, but the relevant workloads typically run on server class CPUs.


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adrian_btoday at 9:04 AM

From all the workloads that I execute on my laptops or desktops, there is only one where the speed matters yet it is not significantly affected by the use of the AVX-512 ISA: the compilation of big software projects.

All the other things that I do and which can take a noticeable CPU time (i.e. not time used for waiting on SSDs or other peripherals) can be accelerated by AVX-512. This includes things like computing file hashes, data compression and encryption algorithms, graphics/audio/video algorithms and also EDA/CAD applications.