More evidence that Intel 'Nova Lake' processors support AVX10 and APX instruction sets

Recently, there is more evidence that Intel's "Nova Lake" processor is expected to support AVX10 and APX instruction sets. These advanced instructions designed for 512-bit acceleration, vector/matrix fast calculations (such as content creation, encoding/decoding, and AI applications) have been limited to server-level Xeon processors in the past, but may be seen in consumer-level products in the future.

According to information from x86 architecture assembler NASM, Nova Lake is likely to bring these advanced instructions to consumer PCs again. Previous reports suggested that Nova Lake would not include these extensions. GCC compiler patch information also showed that early Nova Lake did not enable AVX10, AMX or APX. The outside world once believed that the new generation of CPUs would lack relevant support.

In fact, Intel has disabled AVX-512 on its Alder Lake and Raptor Lake product lines for the consumer market, and only server Xeon products can enjoy 512-bit data acceleration. However, with the release of NASM 3.0 and 3.1, the outside world has rekindled hopes for Nova Lake to restart the 512-bit acceleration function in the client processor. It is reported that Nova Lake may have up to 52 cores, including 16 P cores, 32 E cores and 4 LPE cores, covering game and workstation applications, and is applicable to a wide range of scenarios (server applications are still handled by Xeon). In addition, users can also take advantage of the large number of programs that support AVX acceleration in the existing software ecosystem.

For comparison, AMD has introduced native AVX-512 support into its entire line of "Zen 5" architecture products, greatly improving performance in optimized applications. This is also the first time AMD does not need to split 512-bit data into two groups of 256 bits for two-cycle processing. If Intel also restores full AVX-512 acceleration on consumer SoCs, it will be the first time in history that two manufacturers have simultaneously provided 512-bit vector instruction acceleration capabilities for the consumer market.