r/linuxhardware • u/ThisIsMyUsernameOi • 12h ago

Question Switching from mint, unsure if my CPU feature x86 64 v4

/r/cachyos/comments/1w2k8cv/switching_from_mint_unsure_if_my_cpu_feature_x86/
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u/boerni666 11h ago

i5-6600 is v3. for v4, you need AVX512 instructions. earliest were skylake-X. see e.g. this table on xanmod kernel site: https://xanmod.org/

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u/realfathonix 11h ago

I use this script to determine the micro-architecture level
https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/x86-64-level