AMD Announces SSE5 Instruction Set

Fri 2007-08-31 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

As the title clearly states, AMD has just introduced the new SSE5 instruction set. What does this mean for enthusiasts?

Let’s see what they had to say:

“AMD today announced further plans to innovate the x86 architecture by introducing SSE5, a new extension of the x86 instruction set that is designed to allow software developers to simplify code and achieve greater efficiency for the most performance-hungry applications. SSE5 will give developers additional capabilities to help maximize the performance of applications that have daily impact on consumers and enterprises, including high performance computing, multimedia and security applications. By making the SSE5 specification available to developers today, AMD expects to ease the adoption of the new instructions for tool providers and software vendors who develop these performance-intense applications.”

It seems like AMD might be trying to draw attention away the SSE4 instruction set that will be found on Intel’s upcoming Penryn processors. It will be interesting to see how much traction SSE5 gains among developers, and whether Intel adopts it for their future processors.

Click here to read the press release.

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