Bill I'm running an Intel Core i7 860 - it would appear that this DOES NOT support AVX.
Mike G0GJV > Hi all WSJT-X users, > > we are looking into some performance enhancements that will take > advantage of some parallel processing features of modern CPU > architectures. In order to gauge how much backwards compatibility for > older CPUs we will have to implement it would help to know who is using > such older processors. Please don't turn this thread in to a mine is > better than yours conversation, all I need to know is who or how many of > you are using the older CPU architectures. Note that this applies to MS > Windows, Intel Linux, and Intel macOS users, it is about CPUs not > operating systems. > > The technology we will use is called AVX and that is present on all > Intel CPUs branded Core i3/i5/i7/i9 (circa 2010 to present), it is also > present on AMD CPUs since the Jaguar or Puma based CPU models (some late > Athlon-II CPUs, all Zen based CPUs, including Ryzen) circa 2013 to present. > > Notably Intel CPUs branded Celeron, Pentium, or Atom do not support the > AVX technology. > > So in summary, look up your CPU and if it **does not support AVX** > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions) then let me > know. > > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
