Processors

[hirmer]

Hi,

the problem I'd like to solve: With my A88X-PLUS motherboard and A8-7600 I couldn't blur the video background of MS-teams. Finding out that AVX2 was missing, I read the ASUS CPU compatibility list, AMD's CPU database and CPU-Z. The only suitable CPU is X4-845, but curiously,

 CPU-Z: X4-845

CPU-Z lists AVX2, but AMD in its CPU database only lists AVX on X4-845:

"845 with Near Silent Thermal Solution

(...)

Supported Technologies

AES

AVX

FMA4"

Somewhere in a magazine, I read the AVX2 implementation in X4-845 should not be a good one, the cause maybe AMD tells not about it. Can I rely on AVX2 in X4-845 (only for the background blurring in video conferences)?

Yours,

Harald

[hirmer]

Missing magazine content: google("X4-845" AVX"): "Another innovation: The Excavator cores now support AVX2, but the FMAC width was not doubled accordingly, but a two-pass method is used. The instructions are thus processed, but the computing power per time does not increase." Translated from https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Athlon-X4-845-CPU-261962/Tests/Excavator-Benchmarks-Test-1191570/