How to determine whether a Computer Processor Supports the AVX and SSE4 Instruction Set?

By | Niranjan Bhargav 14 Feb, 2023

How to determine whether a Computer Processor Supports the AVX and SSE4 Instruction Set?

Advanced Vector Extensions are referred to as AVX. Although this technique represents a breakthrough in the history of computing, the average person would find its execution to be rather unusual. Therefore, AVX is more of a marketing word than a real functionality for the majority of processors and systems intended for consumer use. High-performance workstations that run numerous, sophisticated mathematical applications can fully exploit the AVX instruction set’s full capability. Without requiring any additional processing power, AVX substantially accelerates processes.

List of Processors Supporting AVX and AVX2

The list of CPU models that support AVX and/or AVX2 is provided below. It is not possible to enable AVX for a specific CPU if it is not included in one of the lists below.

AVX Support

1. AMD

AMD Jaguar Family 16h (2013)
AMD Puma Family 16h (2014)
AMD Bulldozer (2011)
AMD Piledriver (2012)
AMD Steamroller (2014)
AMD Excavator (2015)
AMD Zen (2017)
AMD Zen+ (2018)
AMD Zen 2 (2019)
AMD Zen 3 (2020)

2. INTEL

Intel Sandy Bridge (2011)
Intel Sandy Bridge E (2011)
Intel Ivy Bridge (2012)
Intel Ivy Bridge E (2012)
Intel Haswell (2013)
Intel Haswell E (2014)
Intel Broadwell (2013)
Intel Skylake (2015)
Intel Broadwell E (2016)
Intel Kaby Lake (2017)
Intel Skylake-X (2017)
Intel Coffee Lake (2017)
Intel Cannon lake (2017)
Intel Whiskey lake (2018)
Intel Cascade lake (2018)
Intel Ice Lake (2019)
Intel Comet lake (2019) [AVX support only seen in Core and Xeon SKUs]
Intel Tiger Lake (2020) [AVX support only seen in Core, Pentium, and Celeron SKUs]
Intel Rocket Lake (2021)
Intel Alder lake (2021)
Intel Gracemont (2021)

3. VIA

VIA Eden X4
VIA Nano QuadCore

4. Zhaoxin

WuDaoKou (KX-5000 and KH-20000 SKUs)

How to Check Whether Your Processor Supports AVX/AVX2/SSE4

Any hardware monitoring application should be able to determine whether your system is AVX/AVX2 instruction set compatible. You should also be able to use the AVX-512 instruction set if you are using a high-performance server-grade system. The simplest approach to determine whether or not your system supports AVX is to use HWiNFO-64. By clicking on the following link: https://www.hwinfo.com/download/, you may get the software.

Thereafter, launch the app after downloading and installing it. Upon entering, you will see a screen similar to this. Run while leaving “Sensors-Only” and “Summary-Only” unchecked.

HWiNFO will detect your system configuration. Let it do its thing.