Extensions
Forms
3 (3 VEX)
Data
Intel XED v2026.08.23

Forms

Every encoding of VFNMSUBSD that Intel XED knows, one row per XED instruction form (iform). How to read the notation.
InstructionEncodingRequires
VFNMSUBSD xmm, xmm, m64, xmm VFNMSUBSD_XMMdq_XMMq_MEMq_XMMqVEX.LIG.66.0F3A.W0 7F /r /is4FMA4
VFNMSUBSD xmm, xmm, xmm, xmm VFNMSUBSD_XMMdq_XMMq_XMMq_XMMqVEX.LIG.66.0F3A.W0 7F /r /is4
VEX.LIG.66.0F3A.W1 7F /r /is4
FMA4
VFNMSUBSD xmm, xmm, xmm, m64 VFNMSUBSD_XMMdq_XMMq_XMMq_MEMqVEX.LIG.66.0F3A.W1 7F /r /is4FMA4

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.

Scalar: only the low double is computed; the other double is zeroed.
VFNMSUBSD: the low elementResult double 0 is computed from double 0 of xmm2, xmm3 and xmm4; double 1 is 0. Result doubles 1 to 0: 0, r0.01xmm2ar00xmm101xmm3or m64b01xmm4or m64c

Result double 0 is computed from double 0 of xmm2, xmm3 and xmm4; double 1 is 0. Result doubles 1 to 0: 0, r0.

Operation

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

features = cpuid_leaf(0x80000001, 0)[2]
if not features >> 16 & 1:
    fault(UD)                    # CPUID: no FMA4
a = xmm2.f64[0]
b = src3.f64[0]
c = src4.f64[0]
xmm1.f64[0] = fnmsub(a, b, c)    # -(a * b) - c, rounded once
xmm1.q[1] = 0
# bits 127:64 cleared, as AMD's manual says
# xmm1 is zeroed from bit 128 up

Run on AMD Zen 5 (EPYC 9645): 3 cases. Its cases ran where CPUID reported no FMA4, and every one raised an exception.

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
VFNMSUBSD xmm, xmm, xmm/m64, xmm
xmmexplicitwrite
xmmexplicitread
xmm/m64explicitread
xmmexplicitread
VFNMSUBSD xmm, xmm, xmm, m64
xmmexplicitwrite
xmmexplicitread
xmmexplicitread
m64explicitread

Flags

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

Attributes

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

All forms
follows MXCSR

Intrinsics

The C intrinsics of Clang 23.1.2 that compile to VFNMSUBSD, 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
_mm_nmsub_sd __m128d _mm_nmsub_sd(__m128d __A, __m128d __B, __m128d __C)

VFNMSUBSD xmm, xmm, xmm, xmm VEX.LIG -mfma4

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
FMA4

FMA4
CPUID.80000001H:ECX[16] FMA4

Bulldozer, Piledriver

More FMA4 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. 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.
  3. AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual, Volume 4: 128-Bit and 256-Bit Media Instructions (26568, rev. 3.25, November 2021), Wayback Machine copy of AMD's PDF

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, part of the LLVM Project, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. The text is our own.