VRSQRT14PS

Compute Approximate Reciprocals of Square Roots of Packed Float32 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.

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Description#

This instruction performs a SIMD computation of the approximate reciprocals of the square roots of 16 packed single precision floating-point values in the source operand (the second operand) and stores the packed single precision floating-point results in the destination operand (the first operand) according to the writemask. The maximum relative error for this approximation is less than 2-14.

EVEX.512 encoded version: The source operand can be a ZMM register, a 512-bit memory location or a 512-bit vector broadcasted from a 32-bit memory location. The destination operand is a ZMM register, conditionally updated using writemask k1.

EVEX.256 encoded version: The source operand is a YMM register, a 256-bit memory location, or a 256-bit vector broadcasted from a 32-bit memory location. The destination operand is a YMM register, conditionally updated using writemask k1.

EVEX.128 encoded version: The source operand is a XMM register, a 128-bit memory location, or a 128-bit vector broadcasted from a 32-bit memory location. The destination operand is a XMM register, conditionally updated using writemask k1.

The VRSQRT14PS instruction is not affected by the rounding control bits in the MXCSR register. When a source value is a 0.0, an with the sign of the source value is returned. When the source operand is an + then +ZERO value is returned. A denormal source value is treated as zero only if DAZ bit is set in MXCSR. Otherwise it is treated correctly and performs the approximation with the specified masked response. When a source value is a negative value (other than 0.0) a floating-point QNaN_indefinite is returned. When a source value is an SNaN or QNaN, the SNaN is converted to a QNaN or the source QNaN is returned.

MXCSR exception flags are not affected by this instruction and floating-point exceptions are not reported.

Note: EVEX.vvvv is reserved and must be 1111b, otherwise instructions will #UD.

A numerically exact implementation of VRSQRT14xx can be found at https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/reference-implementations-for-IA-approximation-instructions-vrcp14-vrsqrt14-vrcp28-vrsqrt28-vexp2.

Operation#

VRSQRT14PS (EVEX encoded versions)

(KL, VL) = (4, 128), (8, 256), (16, 512)

FOR j := 0 TO KL-1

i := j * 32

IF k1[j] OR *no writemask* THEN

             IF (EVEX.b = 1) AND (SRC *is memory*)

                  THEN DEST[i+31:i] := APPROXIMATE(1.0/ SQRT(SRC[31:0]));

                  ELSE DEST[i+31:i] := APPROXIMATE(1.0/ SQRT(SRC[i+31:i]));

             FI;

ELSE

     IF *merging-masking*                 ; merging-masking

             THEN *DEST[i+31:i] remains unchanged*

             ELSE                         ; zeroing-masking

                  DEST[i+31:i] := 0

     FI;

FI;

ENDFOR;
DEST[MAXVL-1:VL] := 0

                                          Table 5-33. VRSQRT14PS Special Cases

Input value                Result value             Comments
Any denormal
X = 2-2n                   Normal                   Cannot generate overflow
X<0
X = -0                     2n
X = +0
X = +INF                   QNaN_Indefinite          Including -INF

                           -INF

                           +INF

                           +0

Intel C/C++ compiler intrinsics#

VRSQRT14PS __m512 _mm512_rsqrt14_ps( __m512 a);
VRSQRT14PS __m512 _mm512_mask_rsqrt14_ps(__m512 s, __mmask16 k, __m512 a);
VRSQRT14PS __m512 _mm512_maskz_rsqrt14_ps( __mmask16 k, __m512 a);
VRSQRT14PS __m256 _mm256_rsqrt14_ps( __m256 a);
VRSQRT14PS __m256 _mm256_mask_rsqrt14_ps(__m256 s, __mmask8 k, __m256 a);
VRSQRT14PS __m256 _mm256_maskz_rsqrt14_ps( __mmask8 k, __m256 a);
VRSQRT14PS __m128 _mm_rsqrt14_ps( __m128 a);
VRSQRT14PS __m128 _mm_mask_rsqrt14_ps(__m128 s, __mmask8 k, __m128 a);
VRSQRT14PS __m128 _mm_maskz_rsqrt14_ps( __mmask8 k, __m128 a);

SIMD Floating-Point Exceptions#

None.

Other Exceptions#

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

Sources

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