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I’m an AMD fanboy, and just built a new Ryzen box. I’d be curious to see if there is a difference in accuracy running the two kernels on AMD hardware.

Maybe it is faster but less accurate to run the intel kernel on AMD hardware.



There is no difference. The operations these kernels use are all well-defined and work identically on all CPUs that implement them. In general, FP/SIMD is not nearly as much of a crapshoot as people seem to expect it to be. Beyond timings, there are generally no user-space visible differences in operation between any AVX/SSE instructions in Intel/AMD cpus.




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