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Intel XED v2026.08.23

VEXTRACTI32X8 copies the low or high 256 bits of a ZMM register, chosen by bit 0 of the immediate, to a YMM register or to 32 bytes of memory, under a mask of doublewords. It exists only at 512 bits and needs AVX512DQ (or AVX10.1). Unmasked it gives the same result as VEXTRACTI64X4, which needs only AVX512F; the two differ in the element size of the mask, as VEXTRACTI32X4 and VEXTRACTI64X2 do for 128-bit blocks, whose pages cover the register and memory forms.

On Zen 5, vextracti32x8 ymm0{k1}, zmm31, 0B3h took the high half (bit 0 of 0B3h is 1) and, with A0h in the low byte of K1, wrote only doublewords 5 and 7 of YMM0, kept the other six and cleared the bits from 256 up. The memory form, vextracti32x8 [mem]{k2}, zmm0, 91h with C9h in K2, stored doublewords 0, 3, 6 and 7 of the high half and left the rest of the 32 bytes untouched.

In compiled code

GCC 14 at -O2 with -march=x86-64-v4 begins the end of a reduction over 32-bit elements with it: summing an int array leaves 16 partial sums in a zmm register, and GCC adds VEXTRACTI32X8 of the high half to the low half on ymm registers, then goes on with VEXTRACTI32X4 as that page shows. For 64-bit elements it uses VEXTRACTI64X4 instead, and with -mavx512f, which lacks AVX512DQ, for 32-bit ones too. _mm512_extracti32x8_epi32(x, 1) is VEXTRACTI32X8 in GCC and VEXTRACTF64X4 in Clang 23, which keeps the integer name for masked forms such as _mm512_mask_extracti32x8_epi32.

AMD’s Zen 5 latency spreadsheet gives VEXTRACTI32X8 four cycles to a register and five to memory, where it takes two macro-ops, at two per cycle, the same as VEXTRACTI64X4. Zen 5’s 2 recorded cases cover the register and memory forms.

Forms

Every encoding of VEXTRACTI32X8 that Intel XED knows, one row per XED instruction form (iform). How to read the notation.
InstructionEncodingRequires
VEXTRACTI32X8 ymm {k}{z}, zmm, imm8 VEXTRACTI32X8_YMMu32_MASKmskw_ZMMu32_IMM8_AVX512EVEX.512.66.0F3A.W0 3B /r ibAVX10.1 or AVX512DQ
VEXTRACTI32X8 m256 {k}, zmm, imm8 VEXTRACTI32X8_MEMu32_MASKmskw_ZMMu32_IMM8_AVX512EVEX.512.66.0F3A.W0 3B /r ibAVX10.1 or AVX512DQ

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.
Modelymm {k}{z}, zmm, imm8m256 {k}, zmm, imm8
Skylake-SP3 / 1p51 / 1p2347
Ice Lake3 / 1p51 / 0.5p4789
Sapphire Rapids3 / 1p512 / 0.5p4789
Zen 41 / 11FP11 / 1FP45 FPSt LSU Store
  1. Zen 4 model: AMD's spreadsheets give latency 4 for Zen 4 and Zen 5 (AMD 57647, row 1146; AMD 58455, row 537).

Data flow

Where the elements of the sources go, element 0 on the right; results that depend on a control value are drawn for an example. How to read.

Extract: the 256-bit block of zmm2 that imm8 numbers goes to ymm1.Register forms
VEXTRACTI32X8 with imm8 = 0x01With imm8 = 0x01, result doublewords 7 to 0: a15, unchanged (bit 6 of k1 is 0), a13, a12, a11, a10, a9, a8.0123456789101112131415zmm2a11111110k1a8a9a10a11a12a13a15ymm1

Example: imm8 = 0x01. The forms write under a mask: where its bit is 0, the element keeps its old value, or zeroes it with {z}.

With imm8 = 0x01, result doublewords 7 to 0: a15, unchanged (bit 6 of k1 is 0), a13, a12, a11, a10, a9, a8.

Extract: the 256-bit block of zmm2 that imm8 numbers goes to m256.Memory forms
VEXTRACTI32X8 with imm8 = 0x01With imm8 = 0x01, result doublewords 7 to 0: a15, unchanged (bit 6 of k1 is 0), a13, a12, a11, a10, a9, a8.m256

Example: imm8 = 0x01. The forms write under a mask: where its bit is 0, the element keeps its old value.

With imm8 = 0x01, result doublewords 7 to 0: a15, unchanged (bit 6 of k1 is 0), a13, a12, a11, a10, a9, a8.

Operation

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

Register forms
x = imm8 & 1  # the 256-bit block
for i in range(8):
    if k1[i]:
        ymm1.d[i] = zmm2.d[x * 8 + i]
    elif zeroing:
        ymm1.d[i] = 0
    # else: ymm1.d[i] keeps its value
# ymm1 is zeroed from bit 256 up

Run on AMD Zen 5 (EPYC 9645): 1 case.

Memory forms
x = imm8 & 1  # the 256-bit block
for i in range(8):
    if k1[i]:
        mem.d[i] = zmm2.d[x * 8 + i]
    # else: mem.d[i] is not written

Run on AMD Zen 5 (EPYC 9645): 1 case.

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
VEXTRACTI32X8 ymm/m256 {k}{z}, zmm, imm8
ymm/m256explicitwrite (masked)
{k}explicitread (write mask)
zmmexplicitread
imm8explicitread

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-E6NF

Attributes

What else XED records about the forms. How to read.

All forms
write masking

Intrinsics

The C intrinsics of Clang 23.1.2 that compile to VEXTRACTI32X8, 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
_mm512_extracti32x8_epi32 __m256i _mm512_extracti32x8_epi32(__m512i A, const int imm)

VEXTRACTI32X8 ymm, zmm, imm8 EVEX.512 -mavx512dqClang emits the equivalent VEXTRACTI64X4

_mm512_mask_extracti32x8_epi32 __m256i _mm512_mask_extracti32x8_epi32(__m256i W, __mmask8 U, __m512i A, const int imm)

VEXTRACTI32X8 ymm {k}, zmm, imm8 EVEX.512 -mavx512dq

_mm512_maskz_extracti32x8_epi32 __m256i _mm512_maskz_extracti32x8_epi32(__mmask8 U, __m512i A, const int imm)

VEXTRACTI32X8 ymm {k}{z}, zmm, imm8 EVEX.512 -mavx512dq

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
AVX512DQ_512

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

or

AVX512DQ
CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[17] AVX512DQ

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 2C, page 5-174 (VEXTRACTI128/VEXTRACTI32x4/VEXTRACTI64x2/VEXTRACTI32x8/VEXTRACTI64x4)
  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.