RCPPS

Compute Reciprocals of Packed Single Precision Floating-Point Values

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Encodings

Operand encoding

Each mode is a value of the Op/En column above. It says which field of the encoded instruction carries each operand, in the order they are written, and whether the instruction reads it, writes it or both.

Measured cost

Description#

Performs a SIMD computation of the approximate reciprocals of the four packed single precision floating-point values in the source operand (second operand) stores the packed single precision floating-point results in the destination operand. The source operand can be an XMM register or a 128-bit memory location. The destination operand is an XMM register. See Figure 10-5 in the Intel(R) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volume 1, for an illustration of a SIMD single precision floating-point operation.

The relative error for this approximation is:

    |Relative Error|  1.5  2-12

The RCPPS instruction is not affected by the rounding control bits in the MXCSR register. When a source value is a 0.0, an of the sign of the source value is returned. A denormal source value is treated as a 0.0 (of the same sign). Tiny results (see Section 4.9.1.5, "Numeric Underflow Exception (#U)" in Intel(R) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volume 1) are always flushed to 0.0, with the sign of the operand. (Input values greater than or equal to |1.11111111110100000000000B2125| are guaranteed to not produce tiny results; input values less than or equal to |1.00000000000110000000001B*2126| are guaranteed to produce tiny results, which are in turn flushed to 0.0; and input values in between this range may or may not produce tiny results, depending on the implementation.) When a source value is an SNaN or QNaN, the SNaN is converted to a QNaN or the source QNaN is returned.

In 64-bit mode, using a REX prefix in the form of REX.R permits this instruction to access additional registers (XMM8-XMM15).

128-bit Legacy SSE version: The second source can be an XMM register or an 128-bit memory location. The destination is not distinct from the first source XMM register and the upper bits (MAXVL-1:128) of the corresponding YMM register destination are unmodified.

VEX.128 encoded version: the first source operand is an XMM register or 128-bit memory location. The destination operand is an XMM register. The upper bits (MAXVL-1:128) of the corresponding YMM register destination are zeroed.

VEX.256 encoded version: The first source operand is a YMM register. The second source operand can be a YMM register or a 256-bit memory location. The destination operand is a YMM register.

Note: In VEX-encoded versions, VEX.vvvv is reserved and must be 1111b, otherwise instructions will #UD.

Operation#

RCPPS (128-bit Legacy SSE Version)
DEST[31:0] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[31:0])
DEST[63:32] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[63:32])
DEST[95:64] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[95:64])
DEST[127:96] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[127:96])
DEST[MAXVL-1:128] (Unmodified)

VRCPPS (VEX.128 Encoded Version)
DEST[31:0] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[31:0])
DEST[63:32] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[63:32])
DEST[95:64] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[95:64])
DEST[127:96] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[127:96])
DEST[MAXVL-1:128] := 0

VRCPPS (VEX.256 Encoded Version)
DEST[31:0] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[31:0])
DEST[63:32] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[63:32])
DEST[95:64] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[95:64])
DEST[127:96] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[127:96])
DEST[159:128] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[159:128])
DEST[191:160] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[191:160])
DEST[223:192] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[223:192])
DEST[255:224] := APPROXIMATE(1/SRC[255:224])

Intel C/C++ compiler intrinsics#

RCCPS __m128 _mm_rcp_ps(__m128 a) RCPPS __m256 _mm256_rcp_ps (__m256 a);

SIMD Floating-Point Exceptions#

None.

Other Exceptions#

See Table 2-21, "Type 4 Class Exception Conditions," additionally:

#UD               If VEX.vvvv  1111B.

Sources

• This instruction in the Intel manual
• Latency and throughput per microarchitecture