Neowin News Feed for: Avx

Prism update unlocks AVX, AVX2 support for Windows on Arm

Paul Hill — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:22:01 +0000

Microsoft's Prism emulator for Windows on Arm now supports critical x86 instructions like AVX and AVX2, unlocking creative tools and games previously incompatible. Read more...

Linux vs Windows AES performance to be intriguing as Google boosts AMD and Intel

Sayan Sen — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:32:02 +0000

AMD and Intel modern processors just got big boosts in performance thanks to various implementations of AES-XTX that help in disk encryption. For example, Windows BitLocker uses AES-XTX-128. Read more...

AMD to lose the AVX-512 upper hand thanks to Intel's new AVX10, new APX makes 64-bit better

Sayan Sen — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:02:01 +0000

After recently proposing x86S 64-bit only CPUs, Intel today introduces AVX10 which brings AVX-512 to its E-cores as well. The company is also debuting a new APX ISA that doubles GPRs. Read more...

Macrium Reflect "Invalid Function" image fails, Windows Server 2003 AVX startup fails fixed

Sayan Sen — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:02:01 +0000

The latest edition of Macrium Reflect fixes a couple of major issues. The first one is related to disk image failures where users reported an "Invalid Function" error, while the second is an AVX bug. Read more...