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https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/17/avxfreq1.html

AVX (256 bit) instructions also suffer a penalty. Both the 256 and 512 bit instructions resulted in a slowdown for 9 microseconds featuring a quarter the instructions per clock, but the 512 bit instructions resulted in an additional penalty of 11 microseconds without executing instructions.

The first penalty was associated with voltage, and the second with frequency. Heavier 256 bit instructions would probably have resulted in the frequency transaction as well.



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