Kaldskryke
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So Sandy Bridge will support Intel's new instruction set, Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). Even AMD's Bulldozer will be able to support AVX. Maybe I just don't know enough about instructions and how they are used to increase performance, but I'm having a hard time seeing how these will be used in the consumer space, specifically gaming. Will AVX be able to accelerate the kind of vector math used in game engines (the physics parts, at least)? Will AVX make a big enough difference to cause gamers to upgrade from a ~4GHz quad-core Nehalem?
TIA. I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I used search but didn't find anything useful. I haven't gotten much from Google either.
TIA. I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I used search but didn't find anything useful. I haven't gotten much from Google either.