Chess engines and new 256-bit AVX instructions

[Yar]

Hello,

Will new Intel's 256-bit AVX instructions speed up chess engines ?

With best regards,
Yar

[govert]

From the web:

Intel® AVX (Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions) is a 256 bit instruction set extension to SSE and is designed for applications that are floating point intensive.

So, for Chess... not likely that it will help, but I'm sure that there are others that are more qualified to answer...

[Gerd Isenberg]

Hello,

Will new Intel's 256-bit AVX instructions speed up chess engines ?

With best regards,
Yar

Guess most "classical" engines will not - except some bitboard engines, explicitly and extensively using simd-approaches, i. e. kogge-stone fill stuff with quad-bitboards, which then fits in one ymm-register.