The PlayStation 3 (known shorthand as PS3) is a seventh-generation console released by Sony in late 2006. This approach to video games is considered good enough, which is one of the reasons why both Microsoft and Sony are on x86 (with AVX2, but without AVX-512) with a conventional Radeon graphics architecture.For other emulators that run on PS3 hardware, see Emulators on PS3. Hardware base, code complexity, costs, time-to-market, and numerous other considerations drive decisions not to invest resources in development of software that would use every single client side CPU (or GPU) innovation that is out there. Thread level (multi-core/multi-thread) and data level parallelism (SIMD) are exceptionally good for high-performance computing (HPC), datacenter, encoding, and encrypting workloads, and even games, yet they are sometimes hard to exploit. Something similar happened to Intel's AVX-512 instructions introduced with its 2013 Xeon Phi 'Knights Landing' supercomputer accelerators and later added to Skylake-X desktop CPUs (and the appropriate generation of Xeon Scalable). When Sony introduced its PlayStation 3 based on the Cell CPU featuring one general-purpose Power core and eight synergistic processing elements (SPEs), a proprietary instruction set architecture with in order execution and 128-bit SIMD organization, the gaming industry was not exactly impressed since Cell was so much different than conventional processors of 2006. Some may ask why bother about this kind of optimization considering the fact that we are already at well above 120 frames per second on our best gaming CPU, Intel's Alder Lake Core i9-12900K? The answer is that there will be lower-power machines that will still benefit from this optimization. AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 processors will also have AVX-512 acceleration.

Nonetheless, the numbers speak for themselves. There are 8 mask registers, through k0 - k7, however only k1 - k7 can be used to mask things out, as k0 implicitly behaves as if all elements are selected.”

When a mask register is used as an operand all of the elements not selected by the mask will either be zeroed or leave the existing value in the destination register untouched.

“There are new comparison instructions which generate a mask in the mask registers as the result of a comparison between vectors. AVX-512 also adds new mask registers which can be optionally used with EVEX encoded instructions,” wrote Whatcookie.

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