Hi Bill, My shack PC uses an Intel Xeon E5405 and this processor does not support AVX - but WSJT-X currently works nicely.
73, Ian G0FCT On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 00:44, Bill Somerville <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >
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