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Instruction

KXNORD

Computes the bitwise XNOR of two 32-bit masks.

Extensions
Forms
1 (1 VEX)
Data
Intel XED v2026.08.23

KXNORD XORs the low 32 bits of two mask registers, inverts the result and writes it to a third, clearing bits 63:32: a bit is 1 where the two sources agree. It is the AVX512BW form of KXNORW, for masks of 32 elements, one per word of a ZMM register or per byte of a YMM register. KXNORW’s page is about its main use, all ones from any register for a gather, which has no 32-element form; here the XNOR mostly compares two masks. KXNORQ is the 64-bit form and KXORD the XOR without the inversion.

Recorded on Zen 5

  • All ones, 32 of them. kxnord k7, k7, k7 turned 93B2A9A11647497Dh into FFFFFFFFh, and kxnord k1, k2, k3 gave the same from two masks whose low halves were both zero.
  • Only the low halves. FFFFFFFF55555555h against AAAAAAAAh gave 0, and AAAAAAAAh against A4EA1D5DFFFFFFFFh gave AAAAAAAAh, the bits where both are 1.
  • Random bits. FFFFFFFF05DDB2A6h against A777631Ah gave 5D552E43h.

In compiled code

With GCC 14 and Clang 23 at -O2 and -march=x86-64-v4, the words where two equality tests agree, ~(m1 ^ m2) of two _mm512_cmpeq_epi16_mask results used as the zero mask of a VMOVDQU16, are one KXNORD in both, after two VPCMPW with predicate 0 in GCC and two VPCMPEQW in Clang. Written with _kxnor_mask32, the same function keeps KXNORD in GCC, while Clang compares the second pair for “not equal” (vpcmpneqw) and XORs with KXORD, as it does for the 8-bit form on KXNORB’s page. _kxnor_mask32 of two arguments is KMOVD twice, KXNORD and a KMOVD back in GCC, and XOR and NOT on EAX in Clang.

AMD’s Zen 5 latency spreadsheet gives KXNORD one cycle and two per cycle on pipes FP0 and FP3, as KXNORW.

Forms

Every encoding of KXNORD that Intel XED knows, one row per XED instruction form (iform). How to read the notation.
InstructionEncodingRequires
KXNORD k, k, k KXNORD_MASKmskw_MASKmskw_MASKmskw_AVX512VEX.L1.66.0F.W1 46 /rAVX10.1 or AVX512BW

Latency and throughput

What the scheduling models of LLVM 23.1.2 give for each form, not measurements: latency / reciprocal throughput in cycles, the ports under them. A row is a model, or models that agree; a dash, a form that its processors lack. Memory forms: latency from the address, ports without the load and store units. Which processors each model covers.
Modelk, k, k
Skylake-SP, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids1 / 1p0
Zen 41 / 0.5FP2 FP3

Operation

What the forms do, in pseudocode that our tests run against results recorded on real processors. How to read.

k1.d[0] = ~(k2.d[0] ^ k3.d[0])   # 1 where the bits agree: all ones
                                 # when k2 and k3 are one register
# bits 63:32 of k1 are cleared

Run on AMD Zen 5 (EPYC 9645): 11 cases.

Operands

What each form reads and writes, as Intel XED records it: the operands of its syntax, in order, and the implicit ones that the syntax does not name. How to read.
OperandKindAction
KXNORD k, k, k
kexplicitwrite
kexplicitread
kexplicitread

Flags

None: XED records no flag that the forms test or change.

Exceptions

The exception class is XED's name for the set of exception conditions that a form follows. How to read.

All forms
AVX512-K20

Intrinsics

The C intrinsics of Clang 23.1.2 that compile to KXNORD, each with the form it compiles to and the Clang options it needs. The forms come from compiling every intrinsic and decoding the result with Intel XED; all intrinsics A–Z explains the method.

IntrinsicCompiles to
_kxnor_mask32 __mmask32 _kxnor_mask32(__mmask32 __A, __mmask32 __B)

KXNORD k, k, k VEX.L1 -mavx512bw

CPUID and processors

Each form belongs to an XED ISA set. A form can be used when the processor reports every CPUID bit of one of its ISA set's alternatives.

CPUID requirements and processors of the XED ISA sets above. Alternatives are separated by “or”; processors follow XED’s chip model, whose AMD processors end with Zen 2, and the CPU data of this site for Zen 3 to Zen 6.
ISA setCPUIDProcessors
AVX512BW_KOPD

AVX10.1
CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=1):EDX[19] AVX10
CPUID.(EAX=24H,ECX=0):EBX[7:0] ≥ 1 AVX10 version

or

AVX512BW
CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[30] AVX512BW

Cannon Lake, Ice Lake (client), Tiger Lake, Nova Lake, Skylake-SP, Cascade Lake, Cooper Lake, Ice Lake (server), Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, Granite Rapids, Diamond Rapids, Zen 4, Zen 5, Zen 6

More AVX10.1 instructions

All 686 AVX10.1 instructions

Sources

  1. Intel XED v2026.08.23 (commit 0bcb6237345c): forms, encodings, operands, flags, exception classes, attributes, ISA sets, CPUID bits and chip model.
  2. The CPU data of x86-64.net: Zen 3 to Zen 6, from GCC’s -march feature sets and AMD’s Processor Programming References, which the page of each processor cites.
  3. Clang's x86 intrinsic headers, LLVM 23.1.2 (commit 85ac56026243): the intrinsics, their signatures and doc comments, and the Clang of that release, which compiled each of them.
  4. LLVM 23.1.2's x86 scheduling models (commit 85ac56026243): the latency, reciprocal throughput and ports of each form, as llvm-mca reports them.
  5. Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 Architecture Specification, revision 7.0 (361050-007, April 2026)
  6. Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2 (325383-093, September 2026): Volume 2A, page 3-530 (KXNORW/KXNORB/KXNORQ/KXNORD)
  7. Software Optimization Guide for the AMD Zen5 Microarchitecture (58455, rev. 1.00, August 2024), Wayback Machine copy of AMD's ZIP

The tables are derived from Intel XED, Copyright Intel Corporation, licensed under the Apache License 2.0; x86-64.net converted and reformatted them. The intrinsics and their signatures come from Clang and the timings from LLVM's scheduling models, both part of the LLVM Project, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. The text is our own.