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> "only" 2x bigger relative to a 256b one

4x bigger; avx512 has twice as many registers.



The number of microarchitectural registers is only loosely related to the number of architectural registers.


Skylake-X has 168 vector registers. Ice and Tiger lake have 224

The connection to the 32 micro architectural registers is quite loose.


Granted. There is still more state to keep track of, though, and I would not be surprised if the physical register file increased in size by more than 2x.




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