hardwaretimes Intel Disables AVX-512 on 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs via BIOS Update

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Intel is planning to disable AVX-512 support across all 12th Gen Alder Lake-S processors next week. The chipmaker is going to release a microcode update via a BIOS release, completely blocking AVX3 support, even when the efficiency cores are disabled on the Alder Lake SKUs. Earlier, board partners were able to enable the wider instruction set to significantly boost floating-point performance in supported applications.

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This kind of stuff is why AMD is outselling Intel despite the performance difference. First gen adoption issues are a factor for sure, but tech people definitely follow the market and see which company is trying to do right by their customers. Intel has hardly ever been in that category. Now that AMD has good performance, brand loyalty is a huge factor and Intel is lacking. 

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5 hours ago, UltraMega said:

This kind of stuff is why AMD is outselling Intel despite the performance difference. First gen adoption issues are a factor for sure, but tech people definitely follow the market and see which company is trying to do right by their customers. Intel has hardly ever been in that category. Now that AMD has good performance, brand loyalty is a huge factor and Intel is lacking. 

 

Perhaps. Me, I'm mostly brand agnostic and held off simply because of the current state of things as far as availability of the latest hardware goes (e.g., mainly DDR5).  That's not to say I don't guage my purchases based on performance/reliability input from others; rather, just that I personally feel things are being introduced so quickly that longer-term, proven quality/performance are currently suffering. 

 

Outside of the corporate shareholder experience, having the latest & greatest is not necessarily the panacea it used to be. 

 

Note: I typically subscribe to the Pepperidge Farm School of Thought 

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I personally think its utter crap. The bottom line is companies gimp other product lines to push consumers to the more expensive option. This sucks but its the standard game we all have been playing.

 

However what is not ok is removing compatibility/a feature after the fact. That is at least how I see this. It is like selling a car with a turbo...for the manufacture to revoke the turbo later. That by any standard is not ok. 

 

As others have said, Intel really goes the extra mile to push people to AMD. A little like Nvidia, I am waiting to see Intel do anything value added for its consumers.

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44 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

I personally think its utter crap. The bottom line is companies gimp other product lines to push consumers to the more expensive option. This sucks but its the standard game we all have been playing.

 

However what is not ok is removing compatibility/a feature after the fact. That is at least how I see this. It is like selling a car with a turbo...for the manufacture to revoke the turbo later. That by any standard is not ok. 

 

As others have said, Intel really goes the extra mile to push people to AMD. A little like Nvidia, I am waiting to see Intel do anything value added for its consumers.

 

I can see and appreciate that point of view and pretty much agree that it's not okay to remove compatibility/a feature after the fact (unless it's determined after the fact  that feature greatly impacts safety and/or performance), I just don't lose any sleep over it these days. I'm too old for that.

 

I do believe it's okay to vote with one's wallet btw. Voting any other way these days tends to have far less effect. 

 

Or maybe a bloody coup is in order? 

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10 minutes ago, iamjanco said:

 

I can see and appreciate that point of view and pretty much agree that it's not okay to remove compatibility/a feature after the fact (unless it's determined after the fact  that feature greatly impacts safety and/or performance), I just don't lose any sleep over it these days. I'm too old for that.

 

I do believe it's okay to vote with one's wallet btw. Voting any other way these days tends to have far less effect. 

 

Or maybe a bloody coup is in order? 

 

That is all you can do really, vote with your wallet. Unless Intel really changes up its act or somehow blows AMD out of the water with a wicked price: performance I know I will be voting AMD with my wallet again on my new build.